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4 Best Linux Distros for Older Hardware
One of the many great aspects of the Linux operating system is its ability to bring new life to old hardware. This is not only a boon for your bottom line but also an environmentally sound philosophy. Instead of sending that older (still functioning) hardware to the trash heap, give it a second lease on life with the help of Linux. You certainly won’t be doing that with Windows 7, 8, or 10. Linux, on the other hand, offers a good number of options for those wanting to extend the life of their aging machines.
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I've never used any of those,but it's nice to see they are still around.
I tired Bodhi a while back because I'd read about the Enlightenment desktop and wanted to give it a try. I don't think I kept it for long. I always seemed to fall back to MInt.
So I basically gave my wife my laptop until she finishes her thesis because it has the same Microsoft Office setup as her desktop and with Thesis stuff, consistency is important. Her uncle had an old Dell Latitude work laptop with Windows 7 running on it. It ran really slowly, so I decided to try Linux again. I had last used Linux around 2009 or whenever the Asus eeePC first came out.
I went with Lubuntu, and I've been really happy with it. I have a few games on Steam that I play. I surf the internet. That's about it, but it works great for those two options. I can have several tabs open without bogging the machine down.
On my Core Duo the Linux Lite distro worked wonders until the drive fried and you can't buy PATA anymore. Why Dell sold computers with PATA instead of SATA during the Core Duo age I don't know but whatever...
I have also used Puppy, it's a hard learning core I didn't want to take... turns out today they make a Puppy Tahr version that is based on Ubuntu so those with Ubuntu/Debian experience should be ok on it, it runs in RAM which is pretty cool.