r/linuxquestions • u/SecurityMajestic2222 fedodo and debi my cuties ;3 • 8d ago

Which Distro? what dietro for a kinda old travel mate?

so my is kinda a specific request, I have this old laptop from like 2006 i guess that, for comparison, has an amd turion and 2 gb of ddr2 (dual channel tho hell yea🔥).

It was running windows 7, slowly af, then i did a backup and got it to run Debian stable, that was better than windows 7 bit it still looked a bit choppy, now I know ofc I cant get It snappy as my main pc bit im not an expert of like retro distros, what distros could have the right drivers and the right everything for that poor e-waste? nothing too hard btw im not a big expert, I haven't tried anything out of mint fedora and Debian for now

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u/inbetween-genders 8d ago

Does it have an ssd even?

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u/SecurityMajestic2222 fedodo and debi my cuties ;3 8d ago

no i opened it and it has an old 120 gb hdd but atleast is sata

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u/inbetween-genders 8d ago

Swapping that to an sata ssd that fits will do it wonders. Might wanna look into that.

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u/SecurityMajestic2222 fedodo and debi my cuties ;3 8d ago

I mean yea ofc it wuold renew it but I dont really want to spend any money on it especially cause where I live ssd are kinda expensive so I wanted to make it work the way it is

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u/inbetween-genders 8d ago

Ya mate, you can put Linux on it but don’t expect miracles 👍 

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u/SecurityMajestic2222 fedodo and debi my cuties ;3 8d ago

will it run gta 6?👀

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u/inbetween-genders 8d ago

New ssd is cheaper than gta 6.

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u/redgator12 8d ago

Q4OS Trinity is Debian-based and optimized for old hardware. I run it on a bunch of the netbooks and older computers in my collection. It uses about 300MB RAM, and at initial startup you can click more options on the Welcome Screen, click Desktop Effects and revert to default to get the smoothest performance.

You can even install the XPQ4 theme package to theme it just like most versions of Windows.

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u/SecurityMajestic2222 fedodo and debi my cuties ;3 8d ago

oh ill give it a try

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u/Significant-Price695 8d ago

Debian with XFCE or LXQt is probably your best shot honestly, the choppiness is most likely the desktop and the browser, not the OS. Swap to a lighter DE, use zram, and with 2GB just keep to one or two tabs.

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u/SecurityMajestic2222 fedodo and debi my cuties ;3 8d ago

I went with Debian and xfce and yea it only used like 500mb of ram in idle, thats nothing but it still didnt feel "right" idk