Hi!

Someone asked me to revive their 20 year old laptop as its no longer working on their installation of windows XP.

This baby has around 512MB of Ram, 1.6 GHZ Intel Atom.

This is my first time doing something with hardware older than myself so I’d love some insight from people around.

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    25 days ago

    I would usually recommend Linux Mint, but damn that thing belongs in a museum!

    Hell, why not put an antique OS like Windows XP for that antique piece of beauty?

    • Gonzako@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      It’s running windows XP but it’s currently unable to use any browsers as the user wants to use it for

        • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          25 days ago

          You could prolly find someone who’s kept some old versions of 32-bit FF, but using them on -today’s- network with old-time security? Whoof. As for the OS, some older XFCE’s WILL work OK w 500MB, but you’ll be waiting on disk-swap a lot, and SSD options will be limited.

          • pastermil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            25 days ago

            but using them on -today’s- network with old-time security?

            This has always been the main issue with older software, hasn’t it?

            • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              24 days ago

              LOL! Well, always is a long time, but not so much until the internet came along! And there are older versions of FF extensions like UBlockO still floating around out there. And it depends on what types of sites the user will be visiting.

      • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        25 days ago

        There are workarounds but i’d discourage you from trying.
        Go linux,