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.

  • Rodsthencones
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    3 months ago

    I have been using alpine on a Chromebook. Its similar to Debian, but is very small. I use sway on Wayland, its not hard to learn, but most desktops are available. If your just playingwithe the laptop, try it out. Following the instructions is not as hard as it seems. https://alpinelinux.org/

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      3 months ago

      I tried it out and it may be a little advanced for me. I didn’t realize all the commands are different from regular debian. I have enough trouble remembering commands from 1 distro ha!I did get it installed but from there kind of stuck

      • Rodsthencones
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        3 months ago

        Hey you tried it. That’s an achievement. Good job. Sorry it didn’t work out.

          • Rodsthencones
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            3 months ago

            Maybe. The documentation is a bit unclear in areas. If you get through the setup script and have the system installed. Its just using the scripts to set up a desktop. Then it really behaves like any other distro.