NIN is the blue ring. 😆

Project 1: Install Gentoo on it. 🙂 Project 2: Keep Gentoo installed on it.

Yeah, it’s hyperbola. 🙂

I think most lightweight desktops have invested in their own components or use LXDE. Xfce has some dependencies on Gnome tech, which I believe they pull in.

Yeah, it’s a “middleweight” DE.

LXDE, LXQT, Openbox, i3, Sway, FVWM. That sort of thing.

Is LXQT or LXDE too modern for them?

Who is hating Xfce? Besides the “lightweight” DE crowd.

The project doesn’t have a lot resources, so it’s behind on things. They do great work for what they have though.

Maybe Briar? It’s P2P chat app.

https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

I never tried that. It sounds like it might have been fun with a burner.

Random peripherals get tested against windows a lot more than Linux, and there are quirks which get worked around.

I would suggest an external SSD for any drive over 32GB. Flash drives are kind of junk in general, and the external SSDs have better controllers and thermals.

Out of curiosity, was the drive reformatted between runs, and was a Linux native FS tried on the flash drive?

The Linux native FS doesn’t help migrate the files between Windows and Linux, but it would be interesting to see exFAT or NTFS vs XFS/ext4/F2FS.