So this is the state of linux in 2016.

>using KDE
Your own fault anon

>using a meme distro

you got what you deserved

>>57636857
op is a faggot

>that monitor
are you from the past?

>>57636857
>>57637171
OP, your very old monitor is probably faulty.

Kevin is literally killing Win10

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>>57637116
>>57637126
>b-b-but it's not linux's fault! You're just not supposed to use it that way!

>>57637171
I want to make use of some old computers lying around the house. The tower is even older than the monitor.

>>57636857
>distro which ranks 50th at distrowatch fucks up therefore every other distro has this issue too
It's like you want to be called a retard

Wow. Kevinnet is still getting installed. Fucking hell

>>57637226
Go ahead and name me another distro my mom would be comfortable using given that she's been using xp all this time then.

>>57637203
fuck off kevin

>>57636857
>>57637098
>uses random meme distro
>"dis iz da state of linux in 2016 XDDDDDDDDDDDD"

Fucking retard

>>57637245
Xubuntu

>>57637208
Hey cunt. You're using a shitty distro for one.

Go install Debian Jessie with GNOME if you want the real distro. What you're saying is pretty much this:

>why doesn't Windows 98 play Overwatch?

Fuck off
>>57637226
This. "Linux" is not an operating system. It's not fair to call one distro "Linux" because that distro in particular is shitty.

Manjaro
Ubuntu
Fedora
Even fucking gentoo
Do not have this issue.

Hey OP? running shitty PC? Install Devuan + lxde + volwheel

who would've thunk people are this retarded in 2016!!!!
>>57637245
Lubuntu. Don't even bother with Debian or Devuan. Install Lubuntu.

>>57637208
this is what you want
https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S55899614#p55899943

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>>57637275
>>57637273
>>57637272
>hurr durr this distro is having problems
>let's name some other ones that won't even fucking boot on the potato
I specifically chose this one because it behaves like windows xp AND has low system requirements for my mom's potato. Furthermore it's obvious you've no knowledge nor experience with the distro in question OUTSIDE OF THIS FUCKING THREAD before CONDEMNING IT. Thanks you all very much for proving that none of you lintards have a clue what you're even talking about. Eat shit and die.

>>57637261
>>57637126
You too. See above.

I use old computers with linux. My usual method is to do a Debian base system only install, then install IceWM and Xorg and stuff. It works well. But it might not be very user friendly if the system is to be used by someone else who's not used to linux.

>>57637245
Solus or Ubuntu mate.

>>57637437
>>57637397


now kys

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>>57637397
>inhales deeply
>IT WONT BOOT XDDXD
>LINTARDS LMAO.XDDDD

Fucking kill yourself. I genuinly attempted helping your stupid ass but you're just blocking out what you don't want to hear. If you read the Lubuntu documentation you would know the actual installer CD has an alternate version of potatoes. Being the spoiled brat that you are you go to /g/ for help and throw a hissy fit when things don't go your way. Oh, and you also throw shade at the devs who make software for free, for your potatoe, for free.

You're an ungrateful prick is what you are.

>>57637498
>lubuntu
>behaves likes xp
Yeah no just fuck off already. None of you here named ANY distros I haven't either already tried or heard about ages ago. You're not telling me anything I don't already know. You won't ever tell me anything I don't already know. Tried to help me? lmao. Don't misunderstand the purpose of this thread: I've stopped looking for advice on /g/ long ago.

we're going back to potatoes to get my fucking power wrist
asshole

>>57637549
>it doesn't behave like XP
You press a start button

The button has a list of applications

How Is this not xp-like again?

>>57637255
>t. Kevin

>>57637581
Did you even take a look at Q4OS, at least how it's supposed to look? Any less is not windows-like in my book. Lubuntu looks and behaves like linux. I've tried the live-CD before. Stop trying to claim otherwise.

>>57637171
What do you have against a perfectly good monitor?

What would you say if it was a CRT?

>>57637226
/g/ keeps recommending Void which never even broke distrowatch top 100.

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>>57637581
>>57637629
Here, in case you're too retarded to navigate around the internet. Q4OS, with XPQ4.

>>57637629
Yes. I took a look at it.

It looks like Lubuntu with a 98-like start menu. If your mother can't handle:

Start:
Topic -> Application

Then there is something wrong going on.

If your mother cannot handle PCManFm, something is wrong.

If your mother cannot handle, web -> firechrome, then something is wrong.

>>57637668
How come Microsoft didn't C&D this? I wonder how long ReactOS would keep breathing if its devs made it look like this.

Time for a serious reply from a person who isn't trying to be a jerk:

OP, looking at that screenshot, I'm guessing that it might be a video driver problem. Do you have a spare video card (that would fit in that computer)? I expect the problem might go away if you swap out the current video card for a different one (or disable the onboard video if it's onboard)

What video card/hardware does it have right now?

>>57637668
>instead for once make an actually good desktop/file manager for Linux and copy the 2k/XP/2k3 classic theme GUI, they make a clone of the retarded fisher price Luna theme GUI instead

>>57637750
>holy shit, why aren't the needs of small enterprises switching their employees -- who are most familiar with the luna theme -- to linux aligned with my neckbeard interests waah waaah

>>57637677
Guess you didn't look enough.

>>57637720
>Do you have a spare video card (that would fit in that computer)?
Not really. Also xp and lubuntu displays properly on this computer.

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>>57636857
You want Windows? Try Debian, Fedora or Mint with Cinnamon. Or KDE Neon.

>>57637208
You just said "tower"?

>>57637821
You might as well use lubuntu then. It's close enough to XP, your mother will probably feel as at home as she would in Q4OS (if it were working properly).

>>57637629
If your mom can't even deal with the slightest change she probably shouldn't use a computer in the first place

Looks like your window theme is fucked up. That can be reproduced under any system that allows you to customize the colors of buttons and text, including Windows.

>>57637171

I still use a 4:3 display. It's quite comfy.

I do have a 16:9 display sitting in storage, but I always end up with far more screen real estate than I know what to do with.

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>>57638007
Ah, yes. Linux's tagline: the users work for the machines

>>57637821
>>lubuntu displays properly on this computer
>>lubuntu displays properly
>>lubuntu displays
>>loonix

:^)

>>57638062
You just came here
to piss people off didn't you?

>>57638062
The problem here can easily be fixed with a bit of tape

>>57638062
Now why don't you show the steps to avoid microsoft sending your personal info to their servers and sharing it with their parthners?

>>57636857
>>57637098
i like the color scheme they should make a theme out of this

>>57636857
"screenshot"

I tried trinity and KDE3 was my first DE. It's perfectly fine.

>>57637397
If you choose a Linux that behave like Windows then of course you are going to get shit. 95% of the development deliberately goes towards making it shit like Windows.

It's like buying a Rolls Royce that behaves like a Trabant. Or a fridge that behaves like a wet plastic bag.

>>57639974
retard

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>>57637201
>there are people who don't even know how a fucking monitor works browsing /g/ at this very moment

>>57637208

Put XP on them and then fist your own asshole until you die.

>>57636857
What the fuck is Q4OS?

your monitor is interjected with a virus

>>57636857
this is why you don't listen to distrowatch and just install the MAJOR distro that best suits your needs

that means either debian, fedora/rhel/centos, *buntu, Arch, Mint, or SUSE

leave the obscure distros to the edge cases

>>57640890
Those distros require more hardware than my computer has. Read the fucking thread.

>>57640913

that makes no sense. all linux distros are basically the same thing underneath the hood. you just need a lightweight DE or WM, the underlying OS really doesn't matter

>>57640945
How does it not make sense? All of the "mainstream" distros these days require at least half a gig of RAM. Most of the time one.

>>57640971
that's for the default pre-installed DEs

You can run LXQT/LXDE or Enlightenment easily on 128mb RAM, or is this machine somehow even shittier than that?

http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/5-lightweight-linux-desktop-environments

>>57641018
How about you read the fucking thread like I told you to? Or just fuck off.

>>57637245
Installing a clone of a 70's multi-user mainframe operating system on your mom's computer is like getting her to drive a fucking 18-wheel truck to church.

Linux is not and was never meant to be a consumer desktop OS. Memeing clueless faggots like OP (and a half of /g/) by underage neophyte retards (like the other half of /g/) into thinking otherwise is actually doing it a huge disservice.

>t. Debian user since 1999.

>>57641036
I did read it, it just doesn't make any sense

how is lxqt or xfce or mate not like XP from an older person's perspective? click start menu, click application, window appears in taskbar

>>57641070
Linus intended linux to be exactly a kernel for the desktop except it didn't turn out the way he wanted. Even now he still talks about "killing microsoft". You're either baiting or fucking delusional. I wouldn't have fucking bothered installing linux if xp hadn't become abandonware.

>>57641076
Then I really can't make it any clearer. Sorry you might just be retarded.

>>57637245
Ubuntu MATE, Mint or even something like Lubuntu.

>>57636857
Someone who happens to be too stupid to screenshot can't into linux. Who could have guessed?

>>57641135
You're the only one here who's retarded

>>57641110
>Then I really can't make it any clearer. Sorry you might just be retarded.

If you can't make a case then you're not worth helping. There's no reason you can't make LXDE or XFCE look exactly like XP there are literally 1000s of themes out there to do just that. Whatever esoteric BS you are alluding to is fucking moronic.

>>57636857
so this is power of linux

>>57641151
>If you can't make a case then you're not worth helping.
Thank you for making it obvious you STILL haven't read the fucking thread.

>>57641177
No.

>>57641164
so you are claiming that q4os (a distro that ships with some old ass variant of kde) is somehow more XP like than an lxde or xfce skinned to emulate windows xp?

>>57641195
Yes. >>57637668

>>57641164
Just shut the fuck up already and go start a blog.

>>57641201

holy fuck what are you even doing

>debian jessie
>KWin

Just install kwin on whatever distro you want

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWin

>>57638062

windows literally turns your computer on in the middle of the night to hijack your internet

>>57641203
Don't lie. You'd be more than happy about it if someone made a thread to bitch about windows/mac os.

>>57641216
Moving the goalpost are we?

>>57641230
Not true.
I don't like bitching in general.
This isn't a fucking tech support forum and it sure as hell isn't for complaining about your own problems with the OS you chose to install and can't get working properly.
Like I said before; go start a blog.

>>57641110
>Linus intended linux to be exactly a kernel for the desktop
He intended it to be a minix clone for AT machines (his own, specifically), not your mom's cake recipes browsing OS.

>it didn't turn out the way he wanted
It turned out to be a UNIX-like OS for people that need UNIX for the kind of computing they do. Which does not include your mom.

>>57641244

you are a fucking moron

you don't even understand what to do therefore you try to cover for it with trolling

anyone with a modicum of sense would have already figured out what to do

install a major distro with a lightweight DE and then skin it using one of the bajillions of xp themes available online (you can use gtk2 or gtk3 it doesn't even matter with your use case)

you somehow think that you are the first person that has ever done this, there are whole institutions and whole countries for fucks sake that have taken lightweight linux distros and skinned them to look like xp

>>57641248
So what did you say to the 98% of all the other threads on /g/ right now? Gas yourself hypocrite.

>>57641289
I'm only on this thread right now.
Currently watching a video and waiting with bated breath for your replies.

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>>57636857
>>57637098
Werks in mi machina.

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>can't into gtk theme

>>57641286
>skin it using one of the bajillions of xp themes available online
AHAHAHA holy shit you think q4os is just a skin? Thanks for proving how much of a fucking retard you are.

In case you still don't fucking get it, I want a distro that looks AND BEHAVES like xp OUT THE FUCKING BOX. A FUCKING SKIN doesn't do that. Not to mention the more configuration I add to it the more easy it'll be for it to break in the future. I'm not sticking around in this house forever. I'm not going to be fucking maintaining this computer. Even if I was using it for myself I still wouldn't fuck around with configs all day.

Every """advice""" and """distro recommendation""" offered ITT has been worthless and will ALWAYS BE. NOTHING said ITT has ever been anything I haven't done before or at least thought about. I'm not grateful to those who ~just want to help~, you're uesless and obnoxious, not that it will stop you. Just letting you know.

>>57641365

>living in mom's basement
>resurrecting obsolete hardware as a token of payment
>she has to pay an extra $100/yr in electricity bills so she can run some obscure linux distro that no one has heard of and will probably be unsupported in 3 or 4 months
>can't be arsed to install a stable distro and skin it, which is literally a 5 minute process
>wonders why he's still in mom's basement

>>57641365
You're the one that made the thread buddy boy.
Have fun with your deprecated OS.

>>57641365
wait, why does this have to look and work like XP OOTB? You never made that point in this whole thread. She's not installing it herself so why does it matter?

>>57641416
I'm a she. And I'm only back home because this semester's over. Nice to see you running out of counterarguments and have to resort to ad hom attacks, though.

Linux is shit. Deal with it, lintard.

>>57641434
How about you read the fucking post SLOWLY since the explanation you're looking for is right in there.

>>57641449
the only thing that is shit in this thread is you, you nasty cunt

you expect people to create an exact distro for your retarded edge case?

>>57641461
none of the points you made are relevent. installing a gtk theme doesn't somehow make the computer less stable you fucking wincuck

>>57641365
>Every """advice""" and """distro recommendation""" offered ITT has been worthless and will ALWAYS BE.

Are you on your period?

>>57641461
>How about you read the fucking post SLOWLY

see >>57641331

ReactOS, there's literally no UNIX architecture in the whole OS since you apparently have such a problem with it

>>57641489
>>57641533
Damn, you even ran out of ad hominems? Nothing expect name calling left? You've really gone out of the way to show how linux cannot be defended. I appreciate that.

>>57641489
>none of the points you made are relevent
Right back at you, dipshit. The original point is that a skin is not a suitable substitute. What the fuck are you on about?

>>57641533
>ReactOS
>WINE out of the box with shitty implementation
Thank you for proving the "Every """advice""" and """distro recommendation""" offered ITT has been worthless and will ALWAYS BE." yet again. Let me guess, you've never used reactOS.

OP, look up Zorin. It's not perfect but it's literally built for Widows users who switch for whatever reason with no knowledge. It also has a "for toasters" release

>>57641563
>Let me guess, you've never used reactOS.

Exactly, because I'm not a fucking moron that needs my linux distro to look exactly like some outdated OS so I don't trigger autism in my household

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>>57641590
"""ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME"""

Does this look anything like XP? READ THE THREAD. I NEED IT TO LOOK LIKE XP OOTB

ITT has been worthless and will ALWAYS BE." yet again"

>>57641449
>I'm a she.

tits or gtfo

>>57641590
FUCK OFF

>>57641592
Time and time again, your posts prove nothing except that you know even less about the distros you recommend than me. el oh el

>>57641620
i don't think we want to see her tits based on her demeanor tbqh famalam

probably has a neckbeard considering her sperg personality

>>57641620
If you ask very nicely I might post feet

>>57641449
tits or gtfo

>>57641643
tits or gtfo

>>57641643
tits or gtfo

it's the rules

>>57641643
>refuses any and all advice pertinent to her question
>just wants to show off her feet on the internet

just get it over with, what's your cam site?

>>57641635
Sorry, your immense retardation triggered me.

>>57641653
>>57641658

>>57641643

>>57641695
tits or gtfo

>>57641704
thanks for the bump :^)

>>57641695
>your immense retardation triggered me.

>immense retardation
>2016
>needs a linux distro to exactly look and act like Windows XP ootb

>>57641718
>can't into saging
>thinking I'm bumping this nonsense

tits or gtfo

I'll make you a deal, if you show us your tits I'll give you a legit bump + an answer to your original question

>>57641734
thanks for the bump :^)

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>>57641742
tits or gtfo bump whore

>>57641742
Someone's a little bit retarded.

>>57641754
>>57641773
thanks for the bump lads

>>57641784
Your baiting is god awful.

>>57641790
Yet here you are, giving me (You)s

>this thread
just fucking install solus holy shit

>>57641804

DID YOU READ THE THREAD HOLY FUCKING SHIT

I swear """to god""" that you linux users are FUCKING MORONS

goddammit!!! READ!

>>57641819
Do you get off on pretending to be me over the internet? Ever though about cutting that dick off, autogynephile?

>>57641563
>You've really gone out of the way to show how linux cannot be defended.
Ahm, not him but now that you mention it, if we follow your logic you're not precisely helping the reputation of the windows users. Just sayin'.

>>57642000
>how linux cannot be defended
>talking about the OS/kernel

>windows users
>talking about the users

How are you doing illiterate

>>57642017
tits or gtfo

>>57636857
>>57637098
>TN panels in charge of being able to display a solid color background without significant variation from top to bottom due to vertical viewing angle shift

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THIS is the state of linux in 2017

>>57642902
Is that supposed to be a good thing?

>>57642930
yes idiot

autism thread

>>57636857
One of my computers is so crappy I can;t use anything other than puppy linux and I have to boot it at that

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>this entire thread
man, I hope OP gives me a (You)

>>57638062
Even Windows doesn't work like XP anymore, that's not a Linux problem.
Either just go use XP, or make her change.
if you can't or won't even put Windows 7 on the machine, give up

>>57637821
>holy shit, why aren't the needs of small enterprises switching their employees -- who are most familiar with the luna theme -- to linux aligned with my neckbeard interests waah waaah
in pretty much any and every corporate setting, Windows Classic was pretty much ubiquitous right until Windows 8 removed the choice

Luna was pretty much a no-show in actual business settings.

>>57643873
"""REEEEEE"""

FUCk you you misogynistic cunt

XP was GOAT, if linux can't even do things as good as a 15 year old OS that is a LINUX problem

just point me at a distro that works like XP OUT OF THE BOX YOU FUCKING MORONS

GODDAMN """"read the thread""""

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>>57641643

>>57643914
tits of gtfo fatty

>>57643946
>install lubuntu
>install xp theme

>>57643966
wut why not

>>57641607

Zorin is one of the ugliest OS's I've ever had the misfortune to try out.

>>57644111
checked

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>>57637171
I'm using a similar monitor and there's nuffin wrong with it.
Hell, when the CFL lamps died after 30K+ hours of use I sent it to a guy that replaced them with LEDs. Now this shit's gonna last me forever.

>>57637750
You can change it to look like the classic theme. Anon just wanted Luna

>>57637397
>>57637273, is right. I put Lubuntu on my junker laptop for shits and giggles. It works fine, and its dead simple to use.

If your mom can't handle it, I suggest you put her in a home

>TCO 03
>Using a monitor from over 10 years ago

OP IS A FAGGOT