I digged out my dad’s old business laptop from 2006. This Asus rust is almost as old as me. But it booted up a horribly slow Windows 7 Home Premium that is totally unusable. Takes 30-40 minutes to open Chrome. Here are the specs: 40 gb old hard drive that is suprisingly healthy (96℅ according to HDDsentinel, more than 1000 days left) 1.73 ghz Intel Celeron M single core cpu that wasn’t exactly the fastest even in 2006 1.25 gb of terribly slow RAM American Megatrends BIOS from 2006 I know Linux can’t do miracles, but are there any still supported distro i could install that would actually run better than this shitty windows stuff?
I found puppy slitaz antix tahrpup ArchBang Slax Delicate Damn Small Linux Absolute FunOS LegacyOS exe gnu/linux Do you know others? Or from these which you recommend if my goal is to create a relatively useable, faster computer, preferably while it doesn’t look that awful (the desktop or wm). So usability>speed>looks But all these are very important, just in this order. Also recommend a desktop enviroment or a window manager that runs well, but doesn’t look that awful and can be installed on these distros
cpu is not removeable. only a few slots are unscrewable on the laptop, propably the battery, ram, storage slots. but i can’t find a working screwdriver rn. I meant that you don’t know my hardware, it is worse than you think. I had bad luck with adapters, even my 2019 gamer laptop couldn’t boot from a hdd using usb-sata adapter, it doesn’t even worth to try on a cheap 2006 laptop. Only thing i could get is a bigger pata/ide drive. I looked some up on hardverapro.hu (basically craigslist in hungary), they are rare and doesn’t worth the money. Only ram could worth it to upgrade, but first i need a screwdriver