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  • 4GB, old? With 4GB of RAM and ZRAM Alpine with a light DE will fly, and any modern browser with UBlock Origin will open most web sites like nothing.
    by anthk
  • I'm running Windows 10 on a 18 year old PC (2008 Intel Q9300, 8 GB RAM)

    It works for browsing the web and various non-intensive apps.

    by dist-epoch
  • I also recommend tinycorelinux (TCL) if you want even more minimalism: http://tinycorelinux.net/

    I personally once used this where it simply only had pdf ability and not a browser or anything else and I have used TCL to resurrect one of my older pc's into making it just work and I can even install many applications. This is a 12-15 year old Dell inspiron mini with 1gb ram. I also love its aesthetics so much and it is so cute when it runs TCL and I sort of used it as a second monitor to run pomodorokitty for sometime as well (all thanks to TCL!)

    I really really love TCL so much, the smallest version is 17mb, I highly recommend giving it a try if you have free time, I feel as if people can really appreciate the intentional minimalism within the project :-D

    by Imustaskforhelp
  • Bodhi Linux may be a better idea: https://www.bodhilinux.com/

    Not sure if it will get more updates in the future.

    I may consider this for the future: https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha

    by Beijinger
  • A decade old PC didn't come with Windows 7, which shipped 17 years ago. It would have windows 10, which shipped 11 years ago, or conceivably 8.1 but I would doubt it. 4gb ram is also too small for that era.
    by asveikau
  • Tiny Core requires less than 50 MB of RAM and a 486. I like DSL but I’ve come to appreciate Tiny Core more. If you have a use case for an extremely light Linux system I recommend it. (I like it for single app GUI VMs.)
    by iamnothere
  • Unless your PC is older than like twenty years, there's absolutely no reason you must use DSL or any distro that includes pre-x86_64 support. Gnome3 might be a little heavy on super crappy hardware but anything that comes prepackaged with XFCE is perfect for an older PC (Xubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, etc).
    by wildzzz

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