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I have an ancient laptop, need recommendations on which distro to install (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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.~~

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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