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.
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.