sullen willow
so the system in question is a thinkpad T42 from 2004 and if you need an example of how bad it runs. it froze after a little bit of trying to get lmde on it. couldn't even press the install application. i will let you know if any of the distros you reccomend work. right now i need help bad ive tried so many distros all 32 bit
cloud timber
Some things I can think of that may be 32-bit and work on that sort of thing:
Devuan
Tiny core
Puppy linux
Anti-X
MX Linux
Debian with some super light window manager
sullen willow
i will let you know if any of them work
prayin they do fr 🙏
tiny core: some reason booted into debian (installed previously)
cloud timber
If I remember correctly, tiny core loads basically everything OS-related into RAM to avoid slow storage from slowing the OS down
violet sorrel
that or damn-small linux which was recently revived, and was the original tiny-core, and seems to take inpiration from antix
I did a thing... on antiX
sullen willow
@violet sorrel@cloud timber antix ended up working and well after using redmond theme the cpu usage is way better. also how high do you think i could upgrade the ram and cpu? considering its already old enough to drink
violet sorrel
that would be found by researching the motherboard and CPU specifications
probably 2 gigs maximum
violet sorrel
run sudo inxi -CMm for your own info to research. You can share the CPU and memory report part here.
tepid knot