Call me a nerd 
but this is written on my “ancient” Asus Eee. Probably not many that remember/know what the Asus Eee was. It was the first “Netbook”. I used it somewhat, but the problem was always too little RAM and disk. I upgraded both RAM an disk, so it kind of worked with Windows XP which it allegedly was designed for according to the badge on the front
It was kind of cool, but when Chromebooks came in the early 2010s I switched and never looked back. On my third Chromebook now. I don’t use it for much work. It’s mainly for traveling. Web and emails and TV/Youtube.
Lately, with Windows 11, I’m really considering switching 100% over to Linux. I like Windows, but Windows 11 has taken a step too far in the “you belong to us” direction. Anyway searching a bit on Linux, I remembered my old Asus Eee. I did install some Linux on it ages ago, but it wouldn’t boot anymore (don’t remember what it was).
Installed 32 bit Linux antiX. It has 32 bit firefox. Now it actually works, and it works better than before. Not exactly super fast with modern web pages, and nothing for Youtube. But perfecly usable as a “Netbook”. Very good for EuroGA
Anyway, it will probably sit still on a shelve for the next 10 years. The bigger question is Windows 11. Just wondered if anyone has said goodby already. Is Google any better?
Excellent observation, and don’t get me started on why so many websites are designed by cretins these days, needing specific browser versions etc.
A lot of the trouble is caused by the use of libraries (“frameworks”) whose devs mostly don’t care about testing them properly. In some cases it is driven by a perceived requirement for the latest version of everything – a big thing in today’s box-ticking corporate environment.
The Eee dates back to 2007.
I’m a big EEE fan, the second-gen one was the laptop I used through graduate school, it was amazing!
There’s even a little-know “desktop” version of it, I used it as a home server/media center for more than half a decade.
You’re bringing back very fond memories.
LeSving wrote:
written on my “ancient” Asus Eee
Ah I once had an Asus ePad, around 2011 or so? It came with a keyboard and a second battery in the keyboard with maybe 20 hours of operation time. Did a lot of work on it…it even had a genuine USB port in the keyboard.
It was particular funny to correct everybody who was insisting that I had to mean iPad, and how iPad is pronounced 
I recently unearthed my first Samsung Tablett, a 7 inch device running some long forgotten android version. The only forum I could still work on that device was EuroGa.
The Eee was a really groundbreaking device. I wish I had gotten one but did get an Acer One ZG5 laptop instead, which also still works fine these days other than the battery is long gone. It’s Windows XP, 8 GB RAM and 120 GB HDD, still does it’s job for most stuff. I think I’ll start using it again now that I remembered it. Just found that one can still get batteries for it.
A question for those who like running old software.
This little PC still works great but it’s pretty much impossible to browse even the most basic stuff on the net. On the other hand, it has a full MS office e.t.c. on it which would allow me to use it as a portable typewriter of sorts. But browsing is near impossible with what is on it.
What browsers are you using, if you run XP? Clearly IE and the Firefox variants which still run on XP don’t appear to work.
The machine has a McAffee anti Virus and internet protection suite installed which to my amazement still downloads updates, so I guess it’s not going to be that much of a risk to run it on the net behind my router.
I don’t know how far back Supermium goes but for win7-64 users like me, it is the go-to browser for cretinously designed websites which work only with the current Chrome and Firefox and not versions from 2 years ago.
That is indeed the main issue with winXP: browsers become useless. You could laugh but if it wasn’t for browsers, my Nokia 808 (c. 2010) would still be fully functional except for websites. It might even still work on euroga.org. Well, no telegram or whatsapp.
Peter wrote:
I don’t know how far back Supermium goes but for win7-64 users like me, it is the go-to browser for cretinously designed websites which work only with the current Chrome and Firefox and not versions from 2 years ago.
thanks, that did the job. installed, works, writing from it now.
Peter wrote:
That is indeed the main issue with winXP: browsers become useless.
well, it appears you just did show me the way around that. supermium works just fine on this here machine. Thanks again.
testing around for most stuff, but it appears all I do need to use this little gem as a travel typewriter with occasional mail access and of course euroga works just fine with it.
