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by fogihujy 1875 days ago
+1 for IceWM. It's ridiculously fast and lightweight while retaining a bare minimum of what it needs to be usable. I rarely touch computers as old as the one in the original blog post, but a simple Debian/IceWM setup will fly on things like netbooks with 1 GB RAM.

I suggest MOC as an alternative music player and mpv for videos.
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LargoLasskhyfv 1875 days ago
Can't get used to IceWM on multi-screen setups. Fluxbox works better with those(for me), especially different screen sizes and resolutions. Regarding media players, why use anything else besides mpv at all? Doesn't matter if started manually with some playlist, or out of some filemanager, regardless if from (framebuffer)console, some X-terminal emulator, or X itself. Works, anytime, for anything.
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fogihujy 1875 days ago
I didn't consider multi-screen setups for such old things as net books. But yes, Fluxbox is also very nice for older systems.
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LargoLasskhyfv 1875 days ago
Why not? They have at least one external VGA, which you can use to drive at least some 14 to 17" external panel at stunning 1024x768 to 1280x1024!1!!

Or not so old ones with HDMI/DP easily anything 22 to 24" @1920x1200, as I do.

edit: more screen real estate is always good!

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