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instantOS mentions (8)

• what's a lesser know distro that surprised you in a positive way?

  Is Solus less known? If not, then idk, maybe InstantOS. Source: over 1 year ago

• InstantOs is an `out of this world` distribution based on Arch

  Instant OS is a very polished Arch distribution. It features it's own window manager called InstantWM which is a tiling as well as stacking window manager. I personally like to use vanilla arch but Endeavor and InstantOS are the only Arch based distributions I've liked so far. Source: over 2 years ago

• Which WM do you use, and why?

  Instantwm is quite cool. Highly recommended https://instantos.io/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Distro for a few years old cheap laptop

  I think Arch-based distros like arch, arcolinux, archcraft or instantos are suite for your laptop. More over you can use void or gentoo if you are experienced user. Source: over 2 years ago

• When connecting to any region from Linux, it ends up showing that you are connected to Austin, Texas.

  Hello, thank you very much for the fast response time! 1) My exact version of linux is InstantOS (arch-based https://instantos.io/). 2) When connecting to that server, I get the following IP: https://i.imgur.com/5xxaGp6.png . 3) Same ting happens when using port 443, just with a different IP, as seen in the screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/TmZ9pL2.png . Source: almost 3 years ago

Xubuntu mentions (63)

• Can I run Linux on my old PC ?

  Yeah, for sure you can give It a try! Imo you have to use a lite desktop environment like xfce maybe . You can have a pretty good idea of what can be your experience Just running a live distro like Ubuntu xfceUbuntu xfce or Linux Mint xfce, if you are really desperate you can also try a very very lightweight like puppy linux. I Will try One of the First 2 in live mode and if It runs well you can install It on the... Source: 11 months ago

• Can my computer run linux VM?

  If you still want to try it on a VM, I'd recommend assigning just 1 GB to it, coupled with a lightweight desktop environment, like XFCE (you can use Xubuntu). Source: 11 months ago

• Should I use Ubuntu 16 in 2023?

  To get a modern lightweight Linux experience you can use a recent version of one the Ubuntu flavours that is optimized for low-resource machines: either Xubuntu (with XFCE) or Lubuntu (with LXQt). Source: about 1 year ago

• Why does resizing windows in Linux desktop don't feel quite as "snappy" as in other OSes?

  It works just fine for me in Xubuntu (Ubuntu with Xfce Desktop environment : https://xubuntu.org/ ). Source: about 1 year ago

• Distro Suggestion

  I run an older spec of the HP Stream. There's no perfect solution, it will be a bit laggy, but I've had good enough performance from the Fedora XFCE Spin and Xubuntu. Source: about 1 year ago