What Linux will go on a weak laptop?

Nyxoy2021-12-01 13:26:04

linux

Nyxoy, 2021-12-01 13:26:04

The main thing is that Linux should be as similar as possible to Windows

Ubuntu, mint do not advise it does not look like

Parameters of a
4gb
Celeron 2 laptop

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Adamos, 2021-12-01
@Adamos

Put the Seven and do not go into what you do not understand until you are about to figure it out.

justhostRU, 2021-12-01
@justhostRU

Any. Well, you will squeeze out 50-150 MB of RAM. and then the browser will come and burn out 850.
The most voracious is not the OS, but modern sites.
linux won't help here.
if you need to save RAM, then look for undemanding sites, not a distribution.

Andrey Barbolin, 2021-12-01
@dronmaxman

https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/linux-for-old-pc-fro...

Alexander Karabanov, 2021-12-01
@karabanov

Linux for computer 2007

rPman, 2021-12-01
@rPman

I want to host a mini program hosting on a laptop (consumption of at least 3% of RAM and core)

the minimum linux configuration (for deb package managers, this is debian / ubuntu / mint / ...) can be installed using debootstrap, the regular installer actually uses it, but it adds 100500 additional software, and so the minimum config takes about 200 MB on the disk and in RAM after loading, about a dozen other mb of ram
installation order:
* boot into another linux (any, but of the same architecture as the target), you can do everything from the virtual machine if you forward the target disk inside
* split the disk into the necessary partitions, if the standard file system ext / btrfs / .. and legacy mbr bios will be used, then one root partition will be enough, if there is efi, then you will need another fat partition for efi, if non-standard file systems or config for example with raid or encryption, you will also need /boot, if a gpt disk (not mbr) is used, then you will also need a 1mb biosboot partition
* mount the root and /boot partitions
* run debootstrap specifying the OS and this directory
* install grub-install /dev/install_disk --root-directory=/install_dir
* chroot /install_dir
* set password for passwd root and /etc/fstab
this is enough to boot into the system and then configure from it (for example, you can manually install the network or you can install networkmanager, configure language locales, time, fonts for the console, etc.)
a desktop environment with a gui for hosting tasks is not even required if that you can put something as simple as possible awesome, openbox, icewm, eEnlightenment, lxde, xfce, ... moreover, by default, a very minimalistic twm should be installed with xserver, in RAM these things will take at most a couple of hundred megabytes ( on gentoo I set up awesome with the latest versions of the system on 50MB of ram, on a machine with 1GB of ram I ran a modern browser)
if you need graphics to only set up but do not need to work, then you can connect to the machine remotely using locally installed DE (for example, from windows machines on the network by installing cygwin xwinserver), this is the normal mode of xserver operation (you can even run games on the local network)

Valdemar Smorman, 2021-12-01
@smorman

Simply Linux (Alt-linux branch)
Recently installed on a laptop with 1GB of RAM with the same stone.
Works great.

Vitaliy K, 2021-12-03
@revenger

Linux Mint with Mate shell has been used for many years on Acer Aspire One.
Who does not know - this is such a typewriter originally on Intel Atom.
Initially, there was 2GB of RAM, later I installed 4 + SSD
https://www.khtulhu.org.ua/zhelezo/458-modernizats...

Oleg Volkov, 2021-12-06
@voleg4u

Antix