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I have an ancient laptop, need recommendations on which distro to install (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 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] 0 points 5 months ago

you can always try a puppy distro! they're super barebones and you can get them really lightweight, shouldn't really have any problems with running something like one of the slackware-based pups or maybe an older debian pup. you can check it out here! https://forum.puppylinux.com/puppy-linux-collection