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
    3·
    4 hours 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 minutes ago

      Maybe mint

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