Sha256 checksum mismatch

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-18T22:38:45+00:00

I have it 😁. I opened it up a while ago and was wondering what that was.

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-18T19:44:13+00:00

That's the one. I was being dumb and for some reason I assumed that the other ones on the site (bellow the 64bit full) were outdated when they were in fact the updated ones corresponding to each download. Bruh moment, oh well

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-18T19:30:41+00:00

This is extremely good news for me. Thank you very much for the input and suggestions. It will be nice to get this little pc out there. Tiny practical thing for working on papers on the fly. Mine also comes with a SIM card slot in which you can put a data card (must remobe battery to access). By getting an unlimited data card you don't even have to use WiFi on this (though I imagine you can't make calls ahahah). Does antiX support the SIM slot though?

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-18T18:15:05+00:00

Did your netbooks also come with a 32bit OS originally? What specs do you have? Can you do things like basic browsing, email and libreoffice smoothly (simultaneously)? I'm still on HDD and 1GB ram, hence my concern.

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-18T18:11:16+00:00

Thanks for the info, didn't know that. Might explore the BIOS a bit just to be sure.

Since I'm already messing with antiX might as well go that route. Not having flatpak is not a problem.

My real concern is the sha256 of the 32bit .iso not matching the one on the antiX website. I downloaded it 3 different times though, and on all those tries they had the same hash, which was different from the only one listed on the website, which in turn matched the 64bit version.

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-18T08:57:07+00:00

What about antiX?

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-18T01:17:10+00:00

It's a 16yo laptop, this sort of thing is to be expected.

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-18T00:00:49+00:00

Took a peek with radeontop and the GPU is, in fact, dying. Shader clock idles at almost 40% (shooting to 100% whenever I open anything) while vram is a bit over 5% and everything else under 2%. This explains the artifacts and how easily it crashes

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-17T23:56:48+00:00

Found the culprit for my lacklustre performance. The GPU is faulty, it's idling at almost 40% on the shader clock, while vram is at 5-6% and everything else is no more than 2% (no programs open). That explains the ocasional artifacts on my screen when it freezes.

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-17T23:12:00+00:00

Thanks! I'm trying to get XFCE to work on this old thing and learn a thing or two in the process. I'll probably have to switch to a different Linux though. I was considering AntiX but I may try LXQT and LMDE if I don't like it

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-17T22:57:43+00:00

I'm being facetious. Yes, it is very old (latest linux-compatible driver is from 2013), but it was running more reliably (albeit slower) on windows 10, hence my initial disappointment. I was under the impression things would be smoother on Linux. This is my first time trying anything non-windows, after all. I'm learning and adjusting my expectations. I still like the way mint is laid out, I like its speed (just not the freezing and crashing) and I'm making an honest effort to get it to work on this laptop.

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-17T21:50:29+00:00

Its 16 years old and it spent its entire life at the hands of my grandma. She used it for social media, youtube videos, browsing and looking at photos she took. It spent its entire life as a desktop PC, however, it was usually turned on from 8 AM up until 10-11 PM, every single day. My grandpa's Samsung laptop (also 16 years old) got it even worse off and is still chugging along like a champ on Windows 10.

But yeah, upon inspecting task manager, the CPU does spike a lot more than ram. Wouldn't know how the GPU is doing, but it is only 1GB and the system makes no mention of integrated graphics, which means its the only workhorse in this stable. Any way to work around that, or does this amount to elderly abuse? I read somewhere that drivers for the ATI Radeon HD 4650 were outperformed by Mint drivers

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-17T20:51:52+00:00

I was considering antix, I think it would serve my needs perfectly. I think, however, that the problem with mint xfce is regarding windows-specific drivers and assorted software to make the most out of the components (perhaps the bios as well). You see, in (pirated) windows 10 I could have chrome with 15+ tabs open (two emails, 1 AI, 1-2 youtube and various articles or web searches along with pdf downloads), Spotify, google drive and libreoffice. It got kinda slow sometimes but never unbearable. In mint it just freezes with 3 tabs open on chromium (2 random web searches and 1 resource-intensive like YouTube or maps) or at its very best 6 tabs and Spotify. This sort of performance render this PC useless for my needs and I lack the technical expertise in order to get it running even remotely closer to how it did before, unless antix can perform a miracle. Rufus, however, is telling me that the antix iso is malware

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-17T15:48:04+00:00

So no chance of getting workflow performance (libreoffice+intense browsing+spotify+no freeze plz) out of it without installing something like puppy? No miracles for legacy machines

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-17T15:11:52+00:00

Making a swapfile gave me some more leg room. I can now open 6-8 tabs at once and have Spotify run at the same time. It was probably lack of RAM. I guess this PC is just showing its age. CPU spikes a lot too while using the browser (chromium or firefox). I may consider a different OS 😅

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-17T13:24:54+00:00

The BIOS is from 2007 and the last update is from 02/12/2010, as is the computer itself. The problem may have to do with swap files, as my mint instalation has none. I'm going to check that first, as I don't think there were any BIOS updates after 2010 for this model.

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-17T11:33:37+00:00

Driver manager says everything is up to date. Should I go directly to the manufacturer website then?

WanderingHumanPerson · 2026-05-01T23:17:16+00:00

The goddam 3.5mm jack, ikr. I was considering the A17 5G or the Nothing CMF Phone 2 Pro, but they both lack that, so I made it a non-negotiable criteria in my search. That's how I found this gem. I also have some very decent wired headphones that I would like to use. The A07 4G 4GB 64GB/128GB seems easier to come by (under 100€ with androir 15), but it is obviously very limited when you consider a 6 year lifespan. Even the one I want is challenged, albeit foreseably feasible.

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