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.
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It's running windows XP but it's currently unable to use any browsers as the user wants to use it for
I'm afraid you're really shit outta luck as even Firefox is killing 32-bit.
You could prolly find someone who's kept some old versions of 32-bit FF, but using them on -today's- network with old-time security? Whoof. As for the OS, some older XFCE's WILL work OK w 500MB, but you'll be waiting on disk-swap a lot, and SSD options will be limited.
This has always been the main issue with older software, hasn't it?