antiX Linux running on an old (15+ years) desktop PC in 2021

I dusted off an old computer built in 2004 to install antiX 19 and see how well it would work for a variety of tasks, including: browsing the internet; editing documents; watching YouTube videos; reading e-mail.

My overall conclusion is that it can be done, but honestly I would rather use my Raspberry Pi 4B. Editing of small documents worked very well in LibreOffice. For browsing, Pale Moon worked better than Firefox, in regards to speed and reliability. For YouTube, dedicated programs like mps-youtube work well and browsers should be avoided. For checking e-mail, using the "basic HTML" mode of Gmail provides a decent experience in a browser; using Thunderbird is a good alternative.

This is an incredibly long video, so please take advantage of the links below to jump to whatever interests you most:
00:00 Intro
00:24 The Physical Box, Front & Back
03:44 Hardware Specs, BIOS
05:40 GRUB, OS Boot
07:28 Light Web Browsing: Firefox, Links 2, Pale Moon
11:32 Screencast software: recordmydesktop, SimpleScreenRecorder, vokoscreen
20:09 Heavy Web Browsing with Pale Moon: Google Drive
26:09 Editing Documents: LibreOffice
35:33 YouTube in a Browser (Pale Moon)
40:34 YouTube in other Programs: SMTube, gtk-youtube-viewer, mps-youtube
48:26 E-mail in a Browser
57:16 E-mail in a Desktop client (Thunderbird)
1:02:31 Bonus Bits (Blender, DCSS)
1:06:38 Closing Words

Here's some info on configuring Thunderbird to not synchronize all your email:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail#w_synchronizing-folders-labels

Видео antiX Linux running on an old (15+ years) desktop PC in 2021 канала Michael Chu