Goodness. This board really has an abandoned look to it - and my favourite thread hasn't been visited in ages.

If anyone from the "old days" (which nowadays means more than a few months ago) still visits - it would be really interesting to hear how everyone's getting on with their operating systems, and especially with their Linux distros.

The fact that this board is so little-visited now is probably a testament to the reliability of current software (and hardware, I suppose.)

I recently treated myself to one of those little netbooks (second hand, of course) with Windows 10 on it to see what W10 is like to actually use, as well as providing myself with a slightly less ancient portable machine than my dear old Eee PCs.

W10 seems to work adequately, but I found it very irritating on various levels - more of that on another post, perhaps. It DID inspire me to start looking into current Linux distros, and I've ended up sticking with dear old Mint on my everyday desktop and laptop. Even thought the computers are ancient, Mint 18.3 and 19.1 installed with no difficulty, and run beautifully.

Having said that, modern distros do seem to have bloated somewhat, and current versions of Mint would be difficult, if not impossible, to shoehorn onto an old Eee PC. I thought I'd take a look at AntiX - now on version 17.3.

The live session launched and ran very fast, and I was most taken with it - until I tried to install it. In all fairness, I'm using VirtualBox which I'm fairly clueless about - but I THINK my problems arise from the AntiX installer. It moans that it is unable to set up a root user (after one has reached the bit asking for a root password to be entered) - and that's that. I could get no further.

Has anyone else tried AntiX recently - and if so, did you have similar problems?  I suppose I could just try it on one of the old Eees if I can clean enough dust off, but there must be a way of making it work on Vbox, too.

Enough for now - I suppose I'm just hoping nostalgically that on of the old regulars might still happen by from time to time! And any experiences/advice with AntiX (or other super-lightweight distros) would be most welcome. If I make any headway with any of them on Vbox or really netbooks, I'll also post back - at risk of talking to myself.

(Walks sadly off amid the blowing tumbleweeds.)