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I have an ancient laptop, need recommendations on which distro to install (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I have a very, very old laptop with me. I don't know the exact specs, but it has a single core celeron processor and 4GB of RAM. It's an old little thing, maybe 15 years old.

I installed Debian on it with LXQT and it was chugging hard. I don't expect it will run modern browsers anyways, so give me your best distros that can run on a potato and have a GUI.

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[-] Toes@ani.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So your HDD may be failing if debian is chugging at the desktop.

Try swapping it out with a cheap SSD.

~~Aside from Debian, you could experiment with the 32bit version of mint.~~

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

SSD is going to be the big performance boost here. Cheap now too.

[-] Bazz@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

15 year old laptop may not have sata, please make sure before you buy a ssd

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