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What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago by Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.

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[–] joyofpeanuts@beehaw.org 0 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Debian with the choice of LXDE as window manager. Debian offers high configurability to remove any heavy component.

[–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)

That's a good point, I could jus try debian and remove the unnecessary stuff. I want my daughter to use this laptop so it needs some video codecs and hopefully some educational games.

Some commenters said you need a minimum of 2GB memory to run Debian. What do you make of that?

[–] joyofpeanuts@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

See this: https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch03s04.en.html Minimum 1Gb, preferably 2 for a desktop.

[–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, good to know. I wonder how is it possible then for Debain-based distros (MX) to run well on this notebook

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