Friend has an old laptop with windows 10 that he doesn’t use because too slow and freezing all the time. Wants to revive it to leave at his lab in grad school for browsing the internet and editing stuff on google docs so he doesn’t have to carry his newer laptop everyday.

I suggested Linux but I myself always used Debian and I am not sure it will run decently with such low specs. Was thinking maybe Debian 11 with xfce or something? Any better options?

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I’m not sure that cpu will be able to handle memory compression with a usable speed. I would expect it to make it even slower

    • wolf@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      I don’t know either, but unless one uses zstd (lzo seems more like a thing for this hardware), I would hope that it is totally usable. (Running zstd memory compression on a Raspberry Pi 2, w/o any noticeable speed impact)