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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Jim147 on August 12, 2021, 03:36:42 PM
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Digging around I found an old laptop that works. It's windows vista and slow as crap. It has a celeron m processor and low memory. I should be able to dig up 2 gig of memory but I haven't dug enough to see if I can put one of my faster processors in it.
Besides raspbian I've been away from Linux for a while. What is a good lite flavor?
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Mint, XFCE edition.
Debian, if you pick one of the lighter weight desktop environments.
Still probably not going to be a real satisfactory user experience.
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I'll see if i can find the motherboard number and see if it will take one of my fast processors. That would really help.
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Mint xfce
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That's what I looked at first. It calls for 2 gig ram. When it cools off tomorrow I will see what I have.
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Mint xfce is the go-to distro for old hardware, but I've had some issues with it on my old laptop (which has a dual-core AMD Athlon X2 with 2 GB RAM). Give it a try, and if it doesn't work then try Mint Mate instead, which I found worked better in my case despite theoretically not being quite as good for older hardware.
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Debian Mint is good if you're hardware is not *too* old. I don't know what exactly too old means. You might try a 32-bit distro if you don't have much memory, although you'll need to use a different browser than Chrome because they've dropped support for 32-bit Linux. (Chromium might still work; dunno)
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As someone that still has an original version of Debian around here this should be fun. I'm going to truly to see how much I can upgrade this thing before I try mint.