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@lxmcf To be completely honest I have never understood the concept of installing arch, care to bring me in loop about it?
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lxmcf204236y@Revenger it's very open, you essentially build the distro yourself, and once you do it you'll understand it, it's hard to explain
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I prefer Lubuntu in this case ...
Lubuntu gives life to old laptops yet providing handy desktop environment. -
KiRtAp226yI recently installed Debian with xfce on a really old laptop (single core CPU @ 2GHz, 2GB RAM) and have no problems with it.
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vityavv1296yBad computer will run OpenSUSE well. Esp. if you do a bare minimum install and install something like openbox on top
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@tacyarg this is the computing equivalent of “what’s the time?” -> “time to buy a watch”
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