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Linux on old School Machines?
  • totally doable. But if you yeet the bloat, windows 10 will be more than fine. My dad runs windows 10 on a i5 2430m all in one. My old school computers had i5 2400s and 4 gb of ram and they ran windows 10 without too much issue.

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  • Technically that's gel electrophoresis. It's basically a way to sort molecules, mainly nucleic molecules like DNA and RNA. It's a relatively quick and easy way to measure length of chains. The thing on the left is basically a ruler, each stripe corresponds to a different length chain of DNA. The farther away it is from the top, the smaller it is.

    Pcr is polymerase chain reaction, which is how nucleic acids are duplicated in bulk in a lab.

    You mainly use it to compare stuff like genes and ribosomal rna. Genes don't change too much between strains, and ribosomal RNA is highly conserved (aka barely changes) between species. Basically you have your ruler, some controls +- and then your test sample/s. If your test band lines up with your control band, it's a match. Or its contaminated.

    The smeary lanes on the left indicate something might be wrong with the gel or the voltage.

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  • Tested or listed specs? I would recommend at least using the 32 bit version in other distros as well. It will be marginally lighter memory wise.

    And I just remembered that my pentium m laptop has a dgpu. It's very weak but just enough.

    Unless if it's a storage thing

  • Smallest Security/Privacy Focused Distro Help?
  • Maybe try something with openbox? Bunsenlabs linux is a good example of what you can do with a window manager. I run it on a pentium m laptop (1 core) with 2 gb of ram. It'd be doable. (It originally had one 1 gb and I don't think I even enabled swap).

    Basically arch plus mimicking their UI would be a good starting point.

    Or just use bunsenlabs 32 bit if your software has 32 bit versions. It will be a bit lighter from a memory standpoint.

  • Can anyone recommend a lightweight, stable distro for a thinkpad?
  • All of them would be fine, also what wireless card and does yours have a gpu. Iirc the 580 had an option for an mx150 so I wouldn't be surprised if the 480 had one.

    Intel wireless cards are well supported, others not so much

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