your blueprint
The Necromancer
That 2014 laptop was never dead. It was waiting.
- base
- Linux Mint Xfce: or antiX for the truly departed
- desktop
- Xfce, light enough to float
- gaming
- emulators of consoles this machine once envied
- escape plan
- this machine owes Windows nothing anymore
- terminal
- htop, open purely to admire the free RAM
- bonus
- a battery that suddenly lasts hours again
second opinion · Debian + LXQt, if you want to go even lighter than Xfce.
What will still annoy you: You will start rescuing other people's old laptops. Your shelf is not ready.
your setup prompt
Paste this into the LLM of your choice. It contains your hardware, your skill level and your blueprint. The AI walks you through the switch, one step at a time, and debugs with you when something breaks.
This is the generic The Necromancer blueprint. Take the quiz to personalize it with your hardware, your Windows anchors, your terminal comfort, and to get a copy-paste setup prompt that makes an AI install it with you.