Dug my old laptop out (HP G60, Turion X2 64) - and installed Mint XFCE on it - so far it’s useable, but of course still slow. I’m amazed it works as well as it does (3 GB ram and an SSD). The CPU usage is at 100% a lot of the time.

My question is, what distros do you guys like for this age of laptop? This is a spare so more for messing around. I was thinking of trying Arch as I’ve hard it’s somewhat lightweight but not sure. I’ve really only used Debian since I’ve been on linux.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’d say MX Linux or a well tweaked arch install.

    MX is pretty snappy on an Intel compute stick I recently set it up on. One sec I’ll grab my old comment for specs.

    Edit: STK1AW32SC, which have the atom x5-Z8330 chips, with a whopping 2gb ram, 32gb emmc, and a microsd slot.

    https://anarchist.nexus/post/187056 for reference, made a post about it.