Playing around with PeppermintOS on a "new " old laptop, and having fun. Its making me realize that tiny things can really work to impress. (Especially when you’re waiting on a ram upgrade, haha!)

Could be terminal based or GUI, I’m just curious—what tiny apps do you use that you think are neat? Things that don’t take up much storage or memory.

  • Hellfire103English
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    1 year ago

    Probably BadWolf. It’s a WebKit-based browser that’s really simple and lightweight. It supports ad-blocking through wyebadblock, although any other settings (e.g. homepage, JavaScript, etc.) need to be specified before compiling from source.

    A slightly more advanced browser is Falkon, which is based on QtWebEngine. It’s more feature-rich, but some websites seem to confuse the Blink-based QtWebEngine with an old version of Internet Explorer (for some reason).

    The lightest browser I could use would probably be w3m. It’s a console-based browser, but it supports displaying images through the framebuffer.

    I generally prefer LibreWolf (a Firefox fork), but I use BadWolf on my 2009 Acer Aspire, which has about 3GB of RAM; and I use w3m on my MacBook, which is now a text-only system.