Should I switch to Linux on a 2002 laptop? If so, which one?

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Rummaging on my balcony, I found greetings from 2002 - an old FUJITSU laptop on AMD Turion X2 32bit, with a built-in, 1GB of RAM on Windows 7 (there was Vista before, judging by the sticker, and remained like the second one, but did not start), and with HDD .
I successfully turned it on (fortunately, there was a charger next to it, the battery, of course, died) and tried to start skype. It started, but the laptop started to slow down so much that IE smokes on the sidelines.
And then I thought about reinstalling THIS lightweight Linux distribution on some thread. But which one to choose? It is desirable that I can run three windows on the laptop (including the browser). I don't care about the design, but I don't need something like MS-DOS either. And whether to switch to Linux at all?

Answer 1

With a gig of memory, you will not be able to work with modern video in any way with a modern browser, even if you don’t put any DE under it at all.
Typewriter and Skype are fundamentally different tasks.
Well, you will pull some Ubuntu 10.04 on this hardware. Well, it will run. Any action - at the speed of sunset. Swap immediately from the launch of the browser, and there is also a crappy screw, do not go to a fortune teller. Messengers such as Skype, during installation, simply will not detect hardware to suit their requirements. Masochism, and nothing more.
The best thing you can do with this machine is to put XP, old toys and make some gamer happy for 40 ;)
(sigh, remembering Daggerfall on a laptop from the early 90s)

Answer 2

Especially for such purposes, there is a distribution kit Runtu Lite

Answer 3

An upgrade is of course desirable, but still, if everything is ok with firewood, then Linux (something on xfce4 or lxqt) or Chromium OS is preferable. In my next room, a mammoth flies on AMD athlone, then I upgraded the most deshman SSD and 4GB of RAM from alik (800r question)

Answer 4

Install linux mint 19.3 how to behave in your 64 bit processor

Answer 5

If you want to try a very lightweight distribution, then you should look at DSL or Puppy Linux

Answer 6

The first step is to see if you can add more memory.
If not, consider installing an SSD drive.
I currently have W'XP. New browsers haven't been released for it for a long time, I have FF'52.9.0 - and it now takes up 731 MB of RAM.

Answer 7

In principle, if the motherboard allows you to drive 3-4 gigs and there is an extra SSD drive, then you can leave it for home use. Proc dual-core, like up to 2.4 GHz are, in the browser you can rummage around.
Prots on aliexpress, memory on Avito.
If you don’t want to bother, then throw off Avito for a couple of thousand.

Answer 8

There was a similar task - to revive the acer aSpire 5010. The winXP sticker, as it were, hinted at the choice of OS ... but to be honest, there are no latest versions of popular browsers for it, and what is is rather slowly. In general, I tried many popular linux distros - they all worked a little worse than winxp in terms of speed. But I came across astra linux. It turned out to be a very smart distro. When loading, it eats about 180-200 mb (only 2 GB ddr1 in the system) and surfing the internet is much more comfortable than winxp. In turnips, this distro does not have the latest versions of the browser, but I solved it through snapd.

Answer 9

Bunsen labs resurrects not such mammoths .....

Answer 10

I am writing now from a laptop worse than yours on AntiX. I also watch YouTube videos.
Here are the configs
System:
Host: asus Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5
Distro: antiX-19.2.1_386-base Hannie Schaft 29 March 2020
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: A8He v: 1.0 serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: A8He v: 1.0 serial:
BIOS: American Megatrends v: A8HeAS.209 date: 07/02/2007
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0 Wh condition: 40.5/51.3 Wh (79%)
model: ASUSTEK A8---24 status: Charging
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron M 520 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Core Merom rev: 1 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 3191
Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: N/ A Core speed (MHz): 1:1596
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10 /ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: ffa0 bus ID: 01:00.0
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: c800 bus ID : 02:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:1b:fc:e9:1c:7e
IF-ID-1: wlan1 state: up mac: 00:1b:fc:fd:c8:a4
Drives:
Local Storage : total: 74.53 GiB used: 4.42 GiB (5.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST980811AS size: 74.53 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 70.86 GiB used: 4.21 GiB (5.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 217.9 MiB (10.6%) fs: swap
dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 152 Uptime: 23h 53m Memory: 477.9 MiB used: 289.3 MiB (60.5%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3
inxi: 3.0.36