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1. Mel (melpsn@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 18-May-2018 16:22:20 EDT Mel

   I want to get an old EeePC up and running with Scratch 2 Offline Editor so my little guy can tinker with sprites and programming. However: 1. It is very old and 2. It was not powerful when it was new. I put Linux Mint XFCE on because it's familiar to me, but it is seriously chugging. Then I found I can't install Adobe AIR so I am roundabout running it through WINE. 1/
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   1. Mel (melpsn@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 18-May-2018 16:30:48 EDT Mel

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      I did get the Windows version of Scratch installed and it's "sort of" running - there's an empty window open that doesn't seem to be loading beyond that.

      Is this whole endeavor doomed due to antiquated hardware? Is WINE the issue? Should I try to figure out how to force an old, unsupported Linux version of Adobe AIR to run? Should I try putting on an even lighter distro, risking wading out of my depths?

      Any advice is appreciated!