light and easy to operate OS for old pc?

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I've got a few late p4 gaming and workstation rigs and an old dual core laptop sitting around. I would like to put one in the garage for basic internet stuff, and mostly playing Gran Turismo lounge music playlists 24/7. Is there a good light duty OS for this type of application? Or am I better off reformatting with xp?


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Jumpncrash said:
while it might not be more powerful depending on which P4 is in there, it will most definitely consume less power.
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I wonder how long it takes to offset the 100$ or so that an RB3 costs vs the cost of electricity for an old laptop.

Example: At home I installed a pihole on an old AMD64 laptop I had laying around doing nothing. The laptop was free but it definitely would take more power than an RB3.
 
lord_galathon said:
I wonder how long it takes to offset the 100$ or so that an RB3 costs vs the cost of electricity for an old laptop.

Example: At home I installed a pihole on an old AMD64 laptop I had laying around doing nothing. The laptop was free but it definitely would take more power than an RB3.
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should be pretty easy to calculate with a kill-a-watt
 
Jumpncrash said:
should be pretty easy to calculate with a kill-a-watt
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So spend more money to figure out how much money is being spent? :)

FU I bought one off Amazon for 22$. TBH I've been looking for one for a while now. I have a media server that runs 24/7 and this will tell me how much money/year I spend just running it idle when nobody's home lol...
 
lord_galathon said:
So spend more money to figure out how much money is being spent? :)

FU I bought one off Amazon for 22$. TBH I've been looking for one for a while now. I have a media server that runs 24/7 and this will tell me how much money/year I spend just running it idle when nobody's home lol...
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haha, don't feel bad, I have 2. To be fair I only bought one, the other I borrowed from a colleague, and then forgot about...hence the second one :p
 
Linux Mint avec le desktop XFCE.
Mon dual core de 10ans fonctionne A#1.

Je déconseille fortement XP: n'est plus supporté, plus de mise à jour de sécurité et je rappel que le dernier Cryptoworm a utilisé une faille non patché dans xp pour se propager (entre autre).
 
Sur mon 800mhz (garage), 2.4ghz (mère), Dual-Core (mediacenter) et même mon I7 (mon laptop), j'ai installé Bunsen Labs.

C'est un Debian avec Openbox comme windows manager. Ultra Léger, simple, minimaliste, joli et entièrement modifiable! Jadore!

https://www.bunsenlabs.org
 
lord_galathon said:
So spend more money to figure out how much money is being spent? :)

FU I bought one off Amazon for 22$. TBH I've been looking for one for a while now. I have a media server that runs 24/7 and this will tell me how much money/year I spend just running it idle when nobody's home lol...
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j'en ai un justement qui sert exactement a sa... Mon mining rig haha
 
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