OS for a weak PC for the normal operation of the browser and flash player?

Question

Iron

Ladies and gentlemen, we need your help!
Given:
There is an old laptop with 2 GB of RAM and a dual-core Celeron. And there is a granny who sits in classmates and plays ala farm games there.
And actually the question is: what to put there so that it does not slow down?
Initially, the laptop was bought without me. The brave managers of a well-known chain made a sales plan, I suppose. He went to wine 8.1. out of the box and everything slowed down. A year later, when the warranty was over, I installed Windows 7. After a while, everything began to work badly again + constantly a lot of viruses and other things. Now there is mint. It works better, but the smudge spoils everything, sometimes freezes tightly. What can you advise, who can come across?

Answer 1

The most optimal solution is to take a tablet and find a similar game in the Google Play store, because flash games will slow down even on a powerful computer.
And from lightweight to the current laptop: Ubuntu + XFCE. Or if without reinstalling, I recommend trying Chromium - it works faster on computers where there is little graphics memory.

Answer 2

I would try out Debian with LXDE.
Debian = stability
LXDE = very fast GUI compared to overheated XFCE

Answer 3

Put ssd in laptop. Add memory if possible. Don't suffer. Programmatically, you will not win these classmates - there are few resources.

Answer 4

ssd and any booth with gnome-session-flashback.
(2 GB of memory for conditional "grandmothers", by the way, is enough, I recently gave one to my parents, but without ssd it was a dull sight).