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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by RuggedPineapple on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:48PM (#27797878)
>Years ago, as a kid, when the only computers I had access to were cobbled together hand-me-downs and machines people would throw away I used to do this kind of thing. Like the author, I settled on IceWM after trying Fluxbox/JWM/FVWM/"Window Maker" and all the various forks with minor variations.

I had one of those original EeePC's years ago, 900 mhz celeron in like 2008, 800x480 screen, just woefully out of date. Ended up running Fluxbox just because of ram usage. With an actual WM it couldn't stream The Daily Show smoothly. I really do love playing with low spec systems.

Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by chapinou on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:53AM (#27799147)
Indeed. I too find optimizing and making things work on low spec systems far more rewarding than brute forcing using the latest hardware.