I have a very, very old laptop with me. I don’t know the exact specs, but it has a single core celeron processor and 4GB of RAM. It’s an old little thing, maybe 15 years old.

I installed Debian on it with LXQT and it was chugging hard. I don’t expect it will run modern browsers anyways, so give me your best distros that can run on a potato and have a GUI.

  • Toes♀English
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    5 months ago

    So your HDD may be failing if debian is chugging at the desktop.

    Try swapping it out with a cheap SSD.

    Aside from Debian, you could experiment with the 32bit version of mint.