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What distro should I use to revive this cutie over here? (europe.pub)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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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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[–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It's running windows XP but it's currently unable to use any browsers as the user wants to use it for

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I'm afraid you're really shit outta luck as even Firefox is killing 32-bit.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    but using them on -today's- network with old-time security?

    This has always been the main issue with older software, hasn't it?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    LOL! Well, always is a long time, but not so much until the internet came along! And there are older versions of FF extensions like UBlockO still floating around out there. And it depends on what types of sites the user will be visiting.

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