Friend has an old laptop with windows 10 that he doesn’t use because too slow and freezing all the time. Wants to revive it to leave at his lab in grad school for browsing the internet and editing stuff on google docs so he doesn’t have to carry his newer laptop everyday.

I suggested Linux but I myself always used Debian and I am not sure it will run decently with such low specs. Was thinking maybe Debian 11 with xfce or something? Any better options?

  • Kualk@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    Fedora.

    It seems to be easy to manage and fast to install.

    SUSE is slow to run and self-update.

    Debian is far behind and Ubuntu seems to always have an issue during or right after installation.