Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl issues.
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  • Admiral PatrickEnglish
    17•4 months ago

    Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market.

    As one should always do xD

    I am a die-hard Linux user, but damn if I don’t miss Windows 2000. It was minimalist, stable, and got the job done.

    • ɐɥOOP
      5•4 months ago

      I initially tried to run debian 12 with xfce on it but it was horribly slow (looked like a gpu driver issue, didnt care enough to troubleshoot) so I decided to go the win2k route

      • Admiral PatrickEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        Yeah, I’ve never had a good experience with Linux on any Peintium 4 (though II and III worked great). The last time I tried was on an old P4 IBM ThinkCenter. Like you said, could be GPU, but even non-graphics tasks were sluggish on it.