I tried a handful of small distros in order to give new life to an old laptop with an AMD C-50 and 2GB of RAM.
The most responsive one, unexpectedly, was Raspberry Pi OS.
I tried a handful of small distros in order to give new life to an old laptop with an AMD C-50 and 2GB of RAM.
The most responsive one, unexpectedly, was Raspberry Pi OS.
Yep. PiOS Desktop (for x86) was a superb very-lightweight distro.
I carefully put a fairly minimal Xfce setup on it instead of LXDE and RAM usage doubled. It's impressively hand crafted and pruned.
Sadly, though, it hasn't been updated since Debian 11.