For a old laptop with Intel atom processor and I think 2gb ram.

  • HerbalGamer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You know those Acer mini laptops from around 2010 back when tablets weren’t really a thing?

    Linux Mint runs on those bad boys.

  • space@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    It’s not worth it. Ram is dirt cheap, you can get 8gb for like $30. For $150-$200, you can find an used Thinkpad that will perform 1000x better.

    I would only use such a machine for playing with old software like Windows 2000 or XP, old Linux distros.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’ve heard Debian and Alpine are good lightweight distros

    I think most distros will run fine on most hardware though (please correct me if I’m wrong) it’s the software you run on it (as in, going with a GNOME desktop environment is going to be much more demanding than xfce for example)

  • Mo5560@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    In my personal experience void linux ran the smoothest on all my old laptops (compared to stuff like arch and antiX, I defo didn’t try everything).

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Also, I’ll just mention that it all means nothing as soon as you open a browser window. Then all your RAM is gonna be used up anyway.

  • throwawayish@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    As other have already alluded to, any distro with a lightweight desktop environment should work on that laptop. However, we don’t know if it would work out for you; simply for the fact that you haven’t given any other information.

  • vxnxnt@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you want to take it to the extreme, Alpine is probably one of the best options.

  • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What would you use this laptop for?

    I’ve dealt with similar hardware, using Qtile over a Manjaro base, but had to mostly use CLI/TUI apps. Anything related to web browsing is a pain.

    • heehaw@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Not sure. But I have other primary laptop. And this laptop is just sitting so I wanted try something with it.

      • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If you just want to play around with it, I highly recommend some arch based distro (because you can find plenty of obscure TUI apps in the AUR) with a window manager (be it tiling like Qtile or stacking like Openbox).

        If you want something preconfigured, I’ve recently found instantOS, which seems to work fine for that usecase.

        I use this small laptop mostly for ebooks (using the excellent epy) and music, using one ot the TUI YouTube frontends.

  • CAPSLOCKFTW@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Might be overkill (or underkill), but Tiny Core Linux is the most lightweight I know. While having an up to date kernel (6.1.2) and glibc (2.3.6).

    What are the minimum requirements? An absolute minimum of RAM is 46mb. TC won’t boot with anything less, no matter how many terabytes of swap you have. Microcore runs with 28mb of ram. The minimum cpu is i486DX (486 with a math processor). A recommended configuration: Pentium 2 or better, 128mb of ram + some swap