Hi!

Someone asked me to revive their 20 year old laptop as its no longer working on their installation of windows XP.

This baby has around 512MB of Ram, 1.6 GHZ Intel Atom.

This is my first time doing something with hardware older than myself so I’d love some insight from people around.

  • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I wanted to say tiny Core, but someone gave that. So I’ll give another suggestion. Use something XFCE based or LXQt based. Maybe mint in XFCE De is the way to go if you want a feature rich solution that is light on resources.

    • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      Maybe mint

      Most ubuntu-based are 1 GiB minimum and dropped support for x86 though.

      • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        You are right, I had forgotten that, Mint XFCE might be 3gigs on HDD, but it’s quite light on processor and RAM. Anyway my suggestion is invalid for x86 requirement.