Which distro would you install on a celeron 2gb ram laptop for a lay person to use?
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honestly the distro doesn't matter so much as long as the hardware i supported. run a minimal desktop, disable CPU hogs and file indexing etc.
I used fvwm on Debian for many years on old computers. worked great. now I have kde/plasma on arch. my 10 year old laptop handles it fine...
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I think Slitaz is still around, I always liked that for older machines, I was going to try it on an AMD C-50 laptop I pulled out of storage recently, except I don’t have time for messing around.
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disable CPU hogs and file indexing etc.
Do you have some tips for that?
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With low specs like that, the experience will never be great, but with a very light desktop you can make it work. Debian is fine, but with some set up, Alpine could be one option. It's a really light distro.
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I did not know, that background images could have this enormous effect! Good to know!!
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Fedora.
It seems to be easy to manage and fast to install.
SUSE is slow to run and self-update.
Debian is far behind and Ubuntu seems to always have an issue during or right after installation.
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VoidLinux
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Mint.
It's extremely stable Linux for your grandma, that comes with every tool that she will ever use and on the cinnamon interface all those tools are exactly where she will expect them to be if she is used to using Windows.
I've gotten three boomers to use it and they hardly ever ask for tech support because it's so stable.
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Raspberry Pi OS
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AntiX or Alpine
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I agree the question here is not so much which distro but which browser.
Todays low-end laptops often come with 8 GB of RAM. Even common phones have more than 2 GB of RAM.
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Debian, lxqt and x11.
If you can get an ssd in there then there’s some zram or something or other that can make it even better.
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It is probably the best solution to the low memory problem, but it is also the least common and may be the most difficult.
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Debian is on the right track. XFCE might work - I remember it running pretty well on a laptop with 4 gigs.
