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    1 month ago

    You can run a bunch of of things on that hardware. The limiting factor is the ram so if you can upgrade it there will be a massive improvement. Also look into getting a SSD.

    I would go Debian with Firefox ESR and ublock origin. You can apply the Firefox privacy patches if you want.

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      1 month ago

      I can’t see investing upgrades into HW that old (I know I could, just doesn’t seem like the best use of money in the long run).

      Also, my partner’s SW is only available for Windows and I don’t feel like teaching them enough Linux to run Wine under it.

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        1 month ago

        Well that hardware isn’t going to run a supported version of Windows anyway.

        2 GB of ram should be enough

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            1 month ago

            Windows 11 requires 4 GB of memory and a newer CPU. There is no way that’s officially supported by Microsoft.

            However, somehow I think you know that. Just keep in mind it probably will have issues and updates may not apply. (No security patches potentially)