It’s an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I’m reinstalling the OS, I thought I’d ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.

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    11 months ago

    The Distro is not important, just debloat it. Something like Alpine is actually smaller, but in the end the Desktop needs to be tiny.

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      11 months ago

      The Distro is not important

      Most distros have dropped 32bit UEFI support, so on old hardware, the distro is important.

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        11 months ago

        If you can run the Raspberry Pi Desktop that would be good. Wayland and I think very light.

        I am thinking about installing that on Fedora, rebranding and all, to have an actually small Wayland Desktop, because the current options are either WMs or bigger Desktops