PeppermintOS? I'm trying to prepare an ancient Chromebook C202S for Linux and have had some ideas from antiX to MXLinux and Loc-OS, but it seems that PeppermintOS may be among the best choices.
The tech level of this Chromebook's end user is unlikely to work well with Arch + BSPWM, which was recommended to me by someone else.
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hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 75d
honestly the distro is not going to make much difference unless you go to some special distro that runs off the ram (instead of the ssd) like tinycore or porteus
the de/wm matters most actually, in this case i'd recommend icewm, xfce or lxde.
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 6 pts · 74d
I think AntiX and Puppy Linux are RAM-based distros, yeah, or something like that. But I think I'll try Devuan + Runit as per another commentator here who uses this same machine... sounds promising! I've never heard of icewm, though, thanks; I'll check it out.
kiri@ani.social · 7 pts · 75d
i3/sway in Manjaro/CachyOS or just install it on raw arch/debian
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 74d
AntiX Linux has been the most efficient distro on my netbook. You gotta be okay without systemd though. For the most part I didn't need it but some things are highly dependent on systemd to work.
WattOS was good too but AFAIK it's not actually open source so I couldn't trust it.
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 1 pts · 70d
I'm fearfully curious about what these are...
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 70d
I think Incus was one I had trouble with. It did run without systemd but part of the installation I had to do manually.
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 1 pts · 69d
Oh, dang, yeah, this machine would definitely not be running that, haha; never heard of it and just now looked it up.
Maddier1993@programming.dev · 6 pts · 74d
Any lxQT based desktop will be fast on low end devices. Try Linux Mint LxQT edition
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 1 pts · 71d
Noted!
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 5 pts · 75d
I have not used it at all, so I cannot speak for it, but look into Puppy Linux.
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 3 pts · 75d
Oh, right, I read up a bit on that, as well as MenuetOS...
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 4 pts · 74d
Maybe puppy linux? Its very light on resources.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 74d
Same question for an old EEE pc with like maybe 1gb ram, trying antix now, may try Slax next, will look into peppermint.
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 2 pts · 73d
Oh, right, I had also heard about Slax... keep me posted!
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 75d
I recently revived a circa-2014 Thinkserver with a core install of antiX, and was pleasantly surprised. I went for the smallest footprint possible by installing only the core distro, and then choosing the packages I wanted/needed.
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 1 pts · 66d
Hmm... how's it been?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 66d
Excellent from my point of view, however my use case is niche and my installation is headless and as bare bones as it gets.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 75d
If you're constrained by the user's "tech level", it's unlikely that you'll find anything significantly lighter ... some other distro might shave off 50MB of RAM, but if it's more difficult to use, that's not really worth it.
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 1 pts · 69d
Right, well, we haven't yet decided who will use the machine.
jcarr@programming.dev · 2 pts · 75d
The last "tiny linux" that I used was BunsenLabs. That was for a netbook, though. No idea about Chromebook compatibility. https://www.bunsenlabs.org/
tux0r@snac.rosaelefanten.org · 1 pts · 70d
Try OpenBSD. It's not Linux, but its RAM requirements are perfect.