I want to revive an old Lenovo laptop with an AMD A6 2.6GHz and 4GB ram, what would be the best option for a DE?

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Your biggest problem is going to be the 4 GB of RAM. Saving a few hundred megs on the DE will help but not much. If you run a web browser ( and I cannot imagine using a computer without one ) that RAM is going to fill up fast.

    Honestly, I would use a 32 bit distro on that hardware.

    Q4OS with Trinity, Antix, Adelie, and DSL are all pretty decent options.