This will be used in CLI mode to do some tiny programming and text file note-taking. Having WiFi would be nice. The price has got to be CHEAP. ARM is ok.

  • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Any model from any major brand made in the last 10 years off craigslist?

    With that kind of spec I, don’t know what you’re expecting—anything that turns on will be able to do that.

    • WasPentalive@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      The hard part is tiny: 10" diagonal screen and really cheap: like milk money cheap - - Perhaps a netbook would work, some of them were Linux based right?

      • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        I got a $12 10 inch Asus eeepc 1005ha that I have NetBSD with i3 on and it’s perfectly usable, so something similar to that would probably be fine for linux cli stuff as long as a 32 bit cpu is okay

      • dtrain@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Asus EEE models were around 10” screens. Should work in CLI. Desktop environment might struggle a bit

        Saw a few on eBay for 50 bucks

        • WasPentalive@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
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          5 days ago

          I would not be running a gui - this is strictly for text stuff unless I can do pixel/plot graphics in some BASIC or other language (a framebuffer?)

      • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        You don’t really need one that is specifically Linux based, as you can format a windows box to Linux at will. Really any 10" laptop you find on cragslist or ebay should do.

        Honestly, the only difficult requirement will be the 10" part. 12"-13" are much more common for small laptops.

      • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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        5 days ago

        Netbooks, haven’t seen them in a decade. They were sluggish at best even running linux. The screens were awful. Seriously, I can’t recommend. A refurbished 10” tablet with a bluetooth keyboard would work 10 times better.