Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
by anthk on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:32AM
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With Linux, FVWM which was damn lightweight (and still is), and some "nice" sttings I was able to do it better than W98.
Rxvt was far lighter than XTerm.
Most software was for the cli after all.
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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
by marcodiego on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:20PM
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Fluxbox/blackbox was even lighter. I think lightweight linux distributions, like damm small linux, could run faster than windows 9x. Unfortunately, easy to use, highly compatible, lightweight linux distros only became popular after the win9x era.
Actually, FVWM was lighter than even Blackbox, check it up.
On "highly compatible", well, you could run mandrake and send drakconf and KDE to the trash.
Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
by marcodiego on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:10PM
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Mandrake was slow to boot on a 90's class machine compared to damn small linux. Also "run mandrake and send drakconf and KDE to the trash" doesn't ticks the "easy to use" box.