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RustyHeater ,

I have that exact machine in my electronics “graveyard”.

Peppermint OS was my GO-TO for speed and driver support out of the box. You can also stick in a 2GB SODIMM of ram. It will only recognize 1.5GB but still 50% more ram.

idk_a_cool_username ,

Try antix. its requirements are 256mb ram. And it’s actually usable.

possiblylinux127 ,

It isn’t going to be faster than Debian. I think the issue is the GPU not supporting modern encoding which leads to the CPU doing everything the GPU is suppost to do

JustARegularNerd ,

Looking up the specs of a D270, looks like the memory is upgradable.

It also looks like the Intel Atom N2600 it has (from my reading) is actually a 64-bit processor

I’d probably say you shouldn’t have much trouble finding a bigger DDR3 memory stick for it for dirt cheap or free from an e-wasted notebook

Ultimately it depends if the performance loss you’re finding is memory limited or CPU limited right now, but I would think that giving it 2 or 4GB + giving it 64-bit would go a long way

quantumcog ,
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I have a similar device Intel atom, 1gb RAM. I installed arch and use it as a headless computer (without DE/WM). If I need WM I use sway. Use a minimal browser like Qutebrowser. Although it would also run like shit but better than chrome/firefox.

ryannathans ,

Zram

mexicancartel ,

Antix linux is a very begginer friendly distro with very light specs

slembcke ,

Oooh. So I keep a Dell Mini 10 (1GB RAM, ~1GHz Atom) around with Haiku on it. It’s brilliant! The UI is super snappy even on such an old machine, and I can even run pretty modern software on it. I used it yesterday to work on my website a bit. :)

Trainguyrom ,

I didn’t know Haiku had actual hardware support!

LeFantome ,

On a laptop that old, I highly recommend a 32 bit distro.

Q4OS with Trinity: q4os.org

Antix antixlinux.com

DSL www.damnsmalllinux.org

You could also enable ZRAM If it is not already.

polskilumalo ,
@polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I have a similar but dual core Atom netbook. The thing I did was put an SSD into it, and then installing bare Debian. I chose no graphical system from the installer. From there I installed i3 as the window manager and launched it with an automatic login script checking if I was on TTY1.

That’s all I did, basically keeping the stuff the little thing has to run to an absolute minimum, and a fully fledged desktop environment would have set it on fire.

arraybolt3 ,
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@maliciousonion personally I'd go with Debian + IceWM on that. Works pretty well.

oo1 ,

replace HDD with SSD, number one thing to do if possible.

lxde or lxqt are quite a bit lighter then xfce.

you could try tiny core linux. it really depends what programs you want to run.

jpablo68 ,

I am currently running Antix on my Acer Aspire One D255 with mixed results, Falkon to browse the “modern” web, and netsurf for simple websites, can’t play 1080p videos smoothly so I have to first resize them with ffmpeg (it takes a long time but it’s doable), other stuff like libreoffice works flawlessly.

GustavoM ,
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Use Dietpi as your main distro, do a minimal install, install sway and then your usual stuff.

t. Got a orange pi zero 3 w/ 1GiB of ram, did exactly as my suggestion implies and everything works as intended.

ICastFist ,
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Slitaz should need only ~60MB of RAM to run. Wireless networking probably won’t work out of the box, tho.

You can also try either MenuetOS or Kolibri, both are super tiny.

possiblylinux127 , (edited )

Do not run Slitaz as is fully of security problems and vulnerabilities. What’s worse is that there website has security holes on it. There is a page on the bug tracker that runs arbitrary JavaScript and prints out the time as an example. It also has been abandoned and is no longer maintained all that well.

1gb of ram is quiet a bit. I’ve ran Debian Xfce4 on simular hardware it it works with a few tabs. The problem is the modern internet is graphics heavy and the old GPU doesn’t have a lot of power. If you don’t block ads with Ublock origin it will grind to a halt as the video and image rendering will be done by the CPU as the GPU is to old.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I’ve ran Debian Xfce4 on simular hardware

OP did say he tried Debian with xfce and it was slow, I don’t see the point in insisting on using that

possiblylinux127 ,

Because it isn’t going to be faster to use something else else. Unless they added a ton of stuff it shouldn’t use more than a quarter of the ram. Firefox suspends tabs under ram pressure so that shouldn’t be an issue either.

I’ve done work on a old Atom with 1gb of ram. It isn’t fast but it gets the job done. You can’t just make old hardware run fast by changing the desktop

Quazatron ,
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I have something like that running Haiku. Try it, you’ll be surprised.

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