My Asus eeePC still rocks in 2024 (with MX Linux)
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The sturdy lil' Asus eeePC is one of my best purchases ever. The netbook still feels great in your hands, the keyboard is amazing. The old battery has barely deteriorated. Despite its humble hardware capabilities to begin with, it still manages to soldier on almost fifteen years later. That's quite insane. This is roughly the time when the hardware advancement began to slow down, as only within a couple of years, you could have systems that still cope with today's software challenges (except intentional bloat, of course).
The true (second) hero of this story is the MX Linux distro. It advertises itself as a midweight desktop operating system, so I wonder what constitutes as "light"? But it provided everything. 32-bit modern kernel, a rich and varied range of software (and here the mix of frugal and weight comes in perfectly balanced), decent looks, tons of friendly utilities for system management, all of it. Very cool. In fact, I'm gonna review this distro nice and proper very soon, that's how impressed I am. Well, I won't be breaking any speed records with the netbook, but as an eccentric choice for lightweight browsing and mail, plus some music and maybe some writing in a recent edition of LibreOffice, the eeePC can deliver. It's still alive. Amazing.