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Sorry, I did not mean it as anything to do with you. I can even see the point of such a resolution on 30" screens and above. I was just wondering about the merits of producing a laptop screen, let alone a 13 inch laptop screen, with such a resolution. Unless, of course, the answer is, "why not?" (which implies that it is no more expensive to produce than a more reasonable, smaller resolution).

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I think images and videos could look good with that resolution. But scaled it below 2000 and it works great with Bodhi. It was my neighbour which I know who had thrown the laptops away. While I was moving our stuffs to a new home there had came seven more laptops on the container. But now without harddrives or rams. He had noticed they vanish fast from the container. But after I asked he said I could probably get the weird thin ssd drive that goes to that Samsung 940x. I have all kinds of drives but not those weird ones. But seems like a good machine.

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L= Learning for life
I= Investigating problems
N= Never giving up
U= Unchallenged platform
X= Xorg.conf needs some mods

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you don't need to go to such extremes as "a smaller distro"...
I know I have mentioned it multiple times already.
Antix Linux.
Its been around for years...
its a solid, reputable distro with a large community..

"antiX should run on most computers, ranging from 192MB old PII systems with pre-configured 128MB swap to the latest powerful boxes.
antiX-core and antiX-net will run with 128MB RAM plus swap, but don’t expect miracles!
192MB RAM is the recommended minimum for antiX. 256MB RAM and above is preferred especially for antiX-full.
antiX-full needs a 5GB minimum hard disk size. antiX-base needs 3GB and antiX-core needs 1GB. antiX-net needs 0.7GB.

Instead of a heavy common Desktop Environment, antiX uses window managers to control what the end-user can see and do. We hope these FAQs will give you a basic orientation to antiX and its window managers, and provide the means to explore further on your own.
These window manager options come installed and ready to use in antiX-full and antiX-base:
the lightweight Rox-IceWM (default)
the lightweight IceWM
the lightweight SpaceFM-IceWM
the minimalist manager Rox-Fluxbox
the minimalist manager Fluxbox
the minimalist manager SpaceFM-Fluxbox
the very minimalist manager Rox-JWM
the very minimalist manager JWM.
the very minimalist manager SpaceFM-JWM.
You can switch by clicking on the menu -→ Desktop -→ Other Desktops,
All window managers can be run with or without the ROX or SpaceFM Desktop environment that provides drag-and-drop functionality or the Conky system monitor that displays real-time information.
antiX also comes with herbstluftwm, a manual tiling window manager.

antiX is a very flexible linux distribution. You can run it live from a cd, live from a usb stick (with persistence ie changes are saved on reboot) as well as setting up a frugal-install from an internal or external hard drive. Of course, you can install to internal and external drives, sticks, cards etc. You can even run it live, add/remove applications, customize it, remaster it and then install. All your changes will carry over to install!

antiX is based on Debian but is totally free of systemd! It comes with a custom kernel, its own custom scripts and repository to enhance user experience. antiX can be used as a rolling release distro ie you should be able to keep your applications up to date by regularly upgrading. If you wish you can enable the Debian testing or unstable repositories and live on the bleeding-edge! For those that prefer stability, keep to the Debian Stable/buster repositories.
A further feature of antiX is that you can install kernels from a variety of sources including Debian, siduction, aptosid and liquorix. This is especially useful if you have a new box as newer hardware is more likely to be detected and work with newer kernels.
antiX is also systemd free"

Personally...
I use it all the time...one of my fav's...
definitely a better option than lubuntu ..
bodhi is great..but can be persnickety..
I suggest ...yet again...antix...it will run on just about anything ..
its designed to...
without the compromising you would be doing in other distros..

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Well that was an advertisement! I tried to install antix on one of my machines a while ago but it didn't work. Just checked my installationd cds dvds and there it is, Antix. Maybe I need to give it another chance. But Bodhi (which I have refuted for a while) just worked with this machine I think I will stick with that. I have now FreeDos, Mint, Ubuntu Mate, Lubuntu and Bodhi on different machines. I think though that I will change Lubuntu maybe back to Skywave Linux. It has all the bells and whistles I have thought using that machine for - with Sdr-rtl receiver and an old foldable antenna. First I had the Subgraph Os on it but it is still in alpha release stage and a bit too difficult to get things work which I wan't.

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you may want to try the latest version of antix...since it is the latest...

also...
I am surprised you couldn't get an older version of antix running..

as far as my post seeming an advert...I simply copy / pasted their faqs.

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It was about a half year old. Maybe even newer. And it didn't matter was it your text or not. A real advertisement - that was my point. From one who truly believes. This is good - or even the best - buy it now!

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then it isn't version 19.

and no...what I posted was not an advert.
it was directly from antix faqs page.
nowhere does it state " This is good" or even "the best" " get it or buy it now"
(However good it is or maybe)

I bothered to post the faqs with its pertinent benefits on the likelihood that simply mentioning antix ...yet again...or simply providing a link to their site would really amount to nothing.
In the end, since you say antix doesn't work for you...it is all as useful as tits on a bull..
So just carry on with what works for you..

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Have you tried EliveOs? It is a one man's project. Pretty cool what he is doing.

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Ah, It seems to use enlightment as window manager, and no intergrated DE so no wonder it is cool :D:D
I used enlightment way back in 2001 or something. At that time it was really cutting edge and in truth it is pretty customisable beast indeed.