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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.
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.
Most ubuntu-based are 1 GiB minimum and dropped support for
x86though.You are right, I had forgotten that, Mint XFCE might be 3gigs on HDD, but it's quite light on processor and RAM. Anyway my suggestion is invalid for x86 requirement.