Unless your PC is older than like twenty years, there's absolutely no reason you must use DSL or any distro that includes pre-x86_64 support. Gnome3 might be a little heavy on super crappy hardware but anything that comes prepackaged with XFCE is perfect for an older PC (Xubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, etc).
Tiny Core requires less than 50 MB of RAM and a 486. I like DSL but I’ve come to appreciate Tiny Core more. If you have a use case for an extremely light Linux system I recommend it. (I like it for single app GUI VMs.)
A decade old PC didn't come with Windows 7, which shipped 17 years ago. It would have windows 10, which shipped 11 years ago, or conceivably 8.1 but I would doubt it. 4gb ram is also too small for that era.
I don't know who wrote this, but it is unlikely AI wrote it.
The main guy is an older engineer with a lot of health struggles. And yes, he is American. Born American as far as I can tell. His health was once so bad, he asked for private donations. Unfortunately, I was not aware of it at that time; otherwise I would have posted it to HN.
Unless your PC is older than like twenty years, there's absolutely no reason you must use DSL or any distro that includes pre-x86_64 support. Gnome3 might be a little heavy on super crappy hardware but anything that comes prepackaged with XFCE is perfect for an older PC (Xubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, etc).
Tiny Core requires less than 50 MB of RAM and a 486. I like DSL but I’ve come to appreciate Tiny Core more. If you have a use case for an extremely light Linux system I recommend it. (I like it for single app GUI VMs.)
A decade old PC didn't come with Windows 7, which shipped 17 years ago. It would have windows 10, which shipped 11 years ago, or conceivably 8.1 but I would doubt it. 4gb ram is also too small for that era.
4GB RAM should have been too small for that era. But there’s still 4GB laptops with windows sold brand new today: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-omnibook-3-laptop-16t-b...
Yeah the decade old thing is wrong. A Sandy Bridge i3 would have come out in 2011. More like 15 years ago.
I'm guessing this is the laptop they are talking about:
https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-inspiron-14z-...
Bodhi Linux may be a better idea: https://www.bodhilinux.com/
Not sure if it will get more updates in the future.
I may consider this for the future: https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha
Or go straight to the distro DSL was forked from - antiX, which has a Debian Trixie-based 32-bit ISO (as well as the expected 64-bit version):
https://antixlinux.com/download/
I literally saw this in the first paragraph of the website and it feels like it was written with AI:
> It’s more than just software—it’s a statement.
I know us engineers aren't the best writers, but when I see things like this, it feels like they're not even trying to write their own content.
I don't know who wrote this, but it is unlikely AI wrote it.
The main guy is an older engineer with a lot of health struggles. And yes, he is American. Born American as far as I can tell. His health was once so bad, he asked for private donations. Unfortunately, I was not aware of it at that time; otherwise I would have posted it to HN.
I'm running Windows 10 on a 18 year old PC (2008 Intel Q9300, 8 GB RAM)
It works for browsing the web and various non-intensive apps.
Core i, 4GB RAM is old? Naw dawg.
In my day, we used a boot disk to restart without Windows 95 so we could run Doom with 8mb RAM