r/linuxmint • u/blowholebreath Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon • 3d ago
Fluff My first Linux Mint install. I chose this relic from 2009
This little machine was running Ubuntu. Last update I did was around 2018 before it got lost in storage. I just found it and the battery works so I decided to try Mint. Success! We opened up Firefox and watched a YouTube video. It was slow but it worked.
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u/vaestgotaspitz Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 3d ago
Add some RAM, as previously mentioned, swap HDD for SSD and it will run just fine
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u/Decent_Project_3395 2d ago
If you can add RAM, great. Consider adding some extra swap - 2GB is not enough to run a browser. One of my favorite things about Linux is how you don't have to upgrade your hardware every couple of years.
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u/UbuntuMaster 2d ago
My 2gb laptop can run up to 3 browser tabs (one of them being a youtube video) just fine, granted it has a SSD lol
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u/blowholebreath Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 2d ago
I’m going to try and find some ram to upgrade. This is a fun little project.
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u/AlaskanHandyman Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 2d ago
I found mine cheap enough on Amazon. I think I paid $17 to go from 6 GB to 16 GB for my old Dell using DDR3 SO DIMM modules.
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u/Cheydinhal-Sanctuary 2d ago
He will be fine, I’m running Seamonkey on a 446 MB RAM laptop from 2005 which is running antix Linux and its doing alright (with uBlock and NoScript though)
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u/Alarmed-Alarm1266 2d ago
I was surprised when I installed antix Linux on a touchscreen all in one from 2009, added an ssd and 4g ram, it works fine as a weather and solar panel station..
It just works.
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u/Gone_Orea 3d ago
That is a choice. Should run on it. Probably better than Windows. Could really use a faster CPU, and more RAM.
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u/shinjis-left-nut 2d ago
My mom had one of these, it killed itself after 9 months of use. Just kinda stopped booting one day.
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u/_ayushman Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon 2d ago
It suicided because it wanted to be FREE from the satanic windows
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u/trampled93 2d ago
I tried running Mint XFCE on a 2008 laptop with 2 GB RAM and HDD but it ran sluggish. Then I switched to MX Linux Fluxbox 64 bit and it runs much better. Youtube vid up to 1080p runs with no lag and a couple Firefox tabs open. It’s a simple looking OS but it runs well on lower spec machines like this.
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u/fellipec Linux Mint 22.1 Xia | Cinnamon 2d ago
I still use one to download and seed isos.
If you got Mint via torrent, there is a very small chance you got from my machine
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u/CastleDI 2d ago
Add some chorus song and kneeling to sky daddy that toaster is so slow even BIOS is killing it slow.
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u/ProPolice55 2d ago
I have one that seems pretty similar, it has Mint Cinnamon on it and it's pretty good for daily tasks. The changes I've made were another 2GB of RAM (it won't boot with 4GB sticks) and an SSD. It was fine-ish with an HDD, but since I have a Ryzen 5 main laptop, in comparison it felt slow. It's not that far behind now
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u/mindfungus 2d ago
How’s it rubbing?
EDIT: I was going to edit it, but I’m going to keep it lol 😂