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Hello everyone! I go by Sola991 online and I'm a girl interested in tech from the 80's to today. I have an IBM Thinkpad R60 which I use daily. (I'm writing this on it right now :3 ) I have a few game consoles like that I use and I like to collect video games, movies, books and most physical forms of media. I've got a few laptops that I use for stuff like tinkering or for school work and I have a desktop that I play games on. I do want to switch over to linux on my desktop but that's a whole thing and I'm waiting for SteamOS to release. I have my own website too that I update sometimes. https://solas-website.neocities.org/ Anyways! Feel free to reach out to my as I love talking and meeting new people!

Hello Sola, Nice to see you! Oh i also want to switch to Linux on my laptop, but unfortunately the windows OS on my laptop SSD corrupted i gotta buy SSD reader to recover some file there and i don't have extra money for that at the moment . And i see that your Neocities still in rough state for now(?) look forward to see it's development! Anyway, hope you enjoy your stay here

DedRoll wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:39 am Hello Sola, Nice to see you! Oh i also want to switch to Linux on my laptop, but unfortunately the windows OS on my laptop SSD corrupted i gotta buy SSD reader to recover some file there and i don't have extra money for that at the moment . And i see that your Neocities still in rough state for now(?) look forward to see it's development! Anyway, hope you enjoy your stay here

I totally understand how you feel. I honestly hate when you loose data. I haven't personally experienced it on a system where I care about the data, so I can't really help you there. My Neocities site is brand new and I'm using it to learn html so it's kinda rough around the edges right now. But yeah! I'm super excited to be here!

Welcome to the Forum Sola,

I love ThinkPads, while I am not an avid collector of them, I have been tinkering, I think also with R60, defiantly an IBM ThinkPad, that the Airport donated to the Org I am part of a while back. But I sadly don't own any old Computers except an Apple PowerBook G3, that I bought as a Joke to tell my Apple Fan Friend that I finally bought an Apple Computer.

While a long term Linux User, I am waiting how SteamOS is going to preform compared to other Distros like Bazzite. Maybe it will become my Gaming PCs default compared to Bazzite.

DedRoll wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:39 am Hello Sola, Nice to see you! Oh i also want to switch to Linux on my laptop, but unfortunately the windows OS on my laptop SSD corrupted i gotta buy SSD reader to recover some file there and i don't have extra money for that at the moment . And i see that your Neocities still in rough state for now(?) look forward to see it's development! Anyway, hope you enjoy your stay here

You might be able to use your Laptop and a Live Boot USB, which most Linux Ditrso ship, to access the file system and copy the Data to another USB Drive or Network/Cloud Storage.

A Live ISO with a bunch of tools I know of is Knoppix but most Distros ship enough tools to do Data Recovery as long as the Filesystem is still intact.

I personally like Thinkpads, I might get an older IBM one to dual boot OS2 Warp and Windows 98 on and a newer Lenovo Thinkpad from around 2013 to run linux on. I also am thinking about getting a PowerBook G3 as well to run Snow Leapord on. And I own a HP Pavilion G7 that dual boots Windows 7 and Ubuntu

I have tried installing Bazzite on my Pavilion but it had problems with the install and being unable to boot once it was installed on the hard drive so I swapped over to Ubuntu because I know they have steam support. I also want to get a few desktops from the late 90's and early 2000's. Like one or two. One to run 98 and the other to run XP.

Crazyroostereye wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 5:43 pm Welcome to the Forum Sola,

I love ThinkPads, while I am not an avid collector of them, I have been tinkering, I think also with R60, defiantly an IBM ThinkPad, that the Airport donated to the Org I am part of a while back. But I sadly don't own any old Computers except an Apple PowerBook G3, that I bought as a Joke to tell my Apple Fan Friend that I finally bought an Apple Computer.

While a long term Linux User, I am waiting how SteamOS is going to preform compared to other Distros like Bazzite. Maybe it will become my Gaming PCs default compared to Bazzite.

DedRoll wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:39 am Hello Sola, Nice to see you! Oh i also want to switch to Linux on my laptop, but unfortunately the windows OS on my laptop SSD corrupted i gotta buy SSD reader to recover some file there and i don't have extra money for that at the moment . And i see that your Neocities still in rough state for now(?) look forward to see it's development! Anyway, hope you enjoy your stay here

You might be able to use your Laptop and a Live Boot USB, which most Linux Ditrso ship, to access the file system and copy the Data to another USB Drive or Network/Cloud Storage.

A Live ISO with a bunch of tools I know of is Knoppix but most Distros ship enough tools to do Data Recovery as long as the Filesystem is still intact.

Sola991 wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 8:57 pm I have tried installing Bazzite on my Pavilion but it had problems with the install and being unable to boot once it was installed on the hard drive so I swapped over to Ubuntu because I know they have steam support. I also want to get a few desktops from the late 90's and early 2000's. Like one or two. One to run 98 and the other to run XP.

I've personally been running Steam on Arch Linux on my main computer for years and I'm still constantly surprised by how much out-of-the-box it has been. Turns out that there is a thing called "Steam Runtime" that to me seems like a part of an Ubuntu filesystem that includes a bunch of libraries and devs can use to build games in, and when you download a game that was built using it Steam also downloads it so the game should run the same (compatibility wise, not accounting for wine/proton) no matter the distro which is pretty cool.

I also am a sucker for old tech (you might be able to tell by the CDE styling on my website ), I do have a desktop computer form (I believe) 1997 running Windows 95 that I sometimes play around with, and It always makes me sad when I use it because despite the very limited hardware of the time period it is still a respectable office machine, it still runs the old Microsoft office suite like an absolute champ and in a lot of cases faster than the modern PC I have to use at work, it makes me wonder what would be of modern Windows it it didn't turn into the corporate data gathering spyware that it is today (along with most of the web).