What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop?

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.

jvrava9,
@jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

AntiX or Arch 32 bit

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski,

Yeah I'm going with AntiX. Used it a long time ago and assumed it had merged with Mepis to do MX, but thanks to this thread I find out it's still available

neige,

MX, anything else is a farce

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski,

I've been using MX since it was Mepis. I love seeing it said well recommended in this thread. For the old laptop I'll go with AntiX

Tibert, (edited )

I have no experience for this matter, nor a lot of Linux either, but there seem to be some interesting choices here (there isn’t best and worst, it’s just a list, and the most adapted to what you need).

itsfoss.com/32-bit-linux-distributions/

Obviously the minimum system requirements should not be your max amount of ram. You need to account for apps or tools you’ll run.

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski,

Thanks, that list was very helpful in confirming some of the ideas I already had.

RubyWitch,
@RubyWitch@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

One distro that I’ve recently found runs pretty well on older/slower systems like this is wattOS. It’s a distro focused on power efficiency, but because of that it does well on underpowered systems.

yum13241,

Arch Linux 32.

ani,

Lubuntu

coolmojo,

Something like Sugar or Doudoulinux would perhaps be more suitable for your daughter.

Doudoulinux has not been updated since ages , but it will run very well on any old laptop.

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski,

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check those out

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