Yes, Linux can revive your old PC

[@Ant-mo1gl]

Lubuntu rules

[@rootcanal7188]

Lubuntu is okay, but U think Kubuntu has better functionality.

[@sweetsweetkhajoor]

lxqt desktop with kwin

[@mazdaxc90]

Debian >

[@mazdaxc90]

With KDE of course

[@Ant-mo1gl]

​@@mazdaxc90 Yes, I don't like Lububtu anymore

[@gez_4515]

Try installing SSD into this thing. You only need to buy 1 part, yet this 1 part will speed up this laptop by dozens of times.

[@gez_4515]

@@bjpgaming592 linux will also work much faster on an SSD

[@ПростойЧеловек-к8г]

But outdated CPU will say the opposite thing

[@RCfromtheNYC]

​@@ПростойЧеловек-к8гCorrect. The CPU will present a bottleneck, but upgrading the drive to an SSD and exploring taking the RAM to 4gb, will definitely make Linux much more manageable.

[@badpiggies988]

Or better yet: That AND ubuntu = GAS GAS GAS And besides, with Windows seemingly getting more and more user-hostile, bloated and laggy with each new OS version, and the Steam Deck encouraging every major game developer to support Linux systems, Linux OSes are simply no longer the non-choice for gamers that they once were. And even for those few really old Windows games that aren’t process-taxing, a few simple compatability-layer installations and then an EXE installation file extract command using WINE should set that right.

[@RCfromtheNYC]

@@badpiggies988 I prefer Small Damn Linux 2024. It's a reboot of the classic distro and it's essentially a fork of AntiX. Its running butter smooth on some of my old ThinkPads and also on some old netbooks I'm about to upcycle.

[@joshuapettus6973]

Sorry to see Mint Mate not work for you, I too am very fond of that desktop. Ubuntu Mate is also a great distro. If you want slightly better looking and more features, I'd say XFCE is also a great choice, right on par with mate, but only slightly more resources than lxde, and less than mate. xubuntu is an excellent distro that served me well over the years.

[@keithryan9620]

Worked for me on my hp 4530s by simply clicking uefi on (selecting UEFI) in the BIOS. after install.

[@ericl5442]

I installed Lubuntu somme months ago on old pc with 2go and updated with a small ssd , surfshark installed , runs well for normal use

[@N30Dr4g0n]

You should have swapped out the HDD for an SSD. Then, you should have installed the XFCE flavor of Linux Mint instead of Mate. That is Mint's light weight version and will usually install and run on a lot more hardware than the Mate or Cinnamon versions.

[@SurfsharkAcademy]

True! But I wanted to see how it would run without any upgrades

[@человек-и3б7ь]

For default Linux mint uses fork of gnome called cinnamon not mate

[@k.b.tidwell]

In Mint, Cinnamon is my favorite. As far as resource usage, it's heavier than XFCE but lighter than KDE, and the same holds true for its customizability. I consider it KDE-Lite, because I can make the interface really, really nice, but it's lighter. For low-end stuff though I do always use XFCE because it's super-customizable too, much more to me than even lighter DE's like LXQT.

[@InvictusCoaching]

​@@SurfsharkAcademyyou don't get it, he's saying you need not upgrade. Just install XFCE

[@Cypherdude1]

​@@SurfsharkAcademy IF you were to upgrade to a $75 Samsung 870 EVO SATA 500 GB SSD + 2 * $65 Crucial 4GB SODIMM RAM (DDR2 is now expensive), it would cost you $205. You would have a fairly fast laptop for daily chores, not gaming though.

[@darkiceywolf2953]

For first time linux users I would recommend going with debain or ubuntu. As generally these distros are easier to look up help for if something goes wrong. I think what he might have overlooked is that someone going from windows to linux might wanna use a distro that looks like windows. Hence linux light is good because it looks similar to windows. Gnome on the other hand is meant more to look like mac os. Furthermore he forget to mention the support cycle I think debian and ubuntu usually have 5 years of software updates. However ubuntu can get as much as 10 years of security updates.

[@martinmatin6275]

debian gets package updates every 76 blue moons

[@hyperoson]

I made my old laptop look and feel like Windows 95 (Chicago 95 theme for XFCE) hahha I love it

[@finkelmana]

I am a Linux user and I would tell you to that the best choice is to keep Windows and spend less than $40 to upgrade to a SSD and the memory to 8GB. The laptop will fly compared to what it was. If you arent already a Linux user, the modest performance gain by switching to a Linux distro is not worth the effort of switching operating systems. Even if you are a Linux user and you were going to keep this laptop, you should pay for these upgrades anyway.

[@RustedCroaker]

Ever seen how much a 4gb ddr2 sodim costs!? Add the same and you will have a whole used laptop with ddr4

[@finkelmana]

@@RustedCroaker Have you? They are as low as $2.99 on ebay

[@Explorer982]

Often an old laptop like this may be maxed with ram capacity

[@volkiruski1221]

Upgrade your computer or laptop with SSD, it cost nothing anymore, I am used to buy lots of stuff from China and 1 of the suppliers has a sales out, its amazing, the price for good working SSD. 2 years ago I did check the top 10 of Distrowatch and I concluded that Linux Mint was mine. I liked the looks of Win XP and Win 7, so for everyone who is used to have Windows, change to Linux Mint (I use Cinnamon) is very easy, but as said, use a nice SSD, a 500GB you can buy for less then 20 USD.

[@ralphfigaro4485]

i installed tiny10 on my 32bit 2g sony vaio from the same era and its pretty fast and after doing a few tweaks from videos i saw off YT and finally updates. It uses 1g at idle, streams 1080p on movie sites no buffering . KZbin was the only problem, bring my ram usage to 1.8g to 1.9 and struggle, but then i saw a post off youtube of what to do and that was a common problem with older machine using current youtube releases. Well, there was a fix, just add H264ify extention from chromestore. The ram usage dropped down to 1.4 g after i did that and youtube loads on the click and no buffering at 1080. Quote from the youtuber that help me solve that issue; Just a recommendation for both Windows and Linux with this hardware. You might be able to improve your KZbin performance quite a bit by using the H264ify extension. Older machines especially have trouble with the default VP9 video codec used in KZbin. With the extension you can make the browser automatically request the h.264 codec that many older machines have hardware decoding for.

[@dappermuis5002]

I love linux mint cinnamon edition. I use it on all my computers. I had a high end Toshiba laptop from 2009 and till about 2 years ago when the cpu shorted out. I was running the full blown version Of Linux mint on it with no issues. The last laptop I dug out, was a low end on from about 2006 for my brother's kid to use. I put zorin lite on it. It was about bout 2 years older than the recomended specs, but it works. A little slow, and video isn't that great. but is funtional for school work. Not bad for a nearly 18 year old laptop 🙂 I had wanted to put puppy linux on it, but it was just downright confusing which version to use so I just didn't bother. I'm no techie, I just know enough to put an OS on a drive.

[@rextex4222]

I love linux. I don't game on my 'puter so I have no use for any windows distro.

[@sweetsweetkhajoor]

windows distro?

[@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung]

Windows distro, as opposed to the Linux OS right?

[@calholli]

You can use Nobara, Garuda, Cachy, Pika, Regata.. for gaming on Linux and they actually make it easy to install everything. (granted, there are still a list of games that won't work because of antiCheat-- but it's still plays almost everything else).

[@mariandecker3942]

Everybody forgets LMDE is the fourth flavor of Mint... and probably the best

[@patricktrakzel9657]

Although it is actually not a flavour. It is based on Debian ( hence the name Linux Mint Debian Edition ),and not on Ubuntu.The Mint team is prepairing for the future. With Canonical ( (K)(L)(X)Ubuntu ) you never know. I like that you mentioned it. I run it with MX, Garuda and Win10 on the same disk.

[@mariandecker3942]

@@patricktrakzel9657 IT is a flavor of Linux Mint Because it is called Mint.

[@paolor.479]

LMDE 6 is a great choice

[@PepsiAddictedBear]

Basically, decision that matters 'the most' in most cases is not the distro itself, but what desktop environment you choose.

[@patricktrakzel9657]

The diffence can be huge. This ( and upgrading to an ssd of course ) is one of the best comments I have come across.

[@Metro1234-ty7cx]

The lightest one, antiX, runs between 150-100 mb, but it is a bit old, so the best and lightest one that can be used in daily life is MX Linux. Lubuntu is also lightweight, but MX is the lightest.

[@yayafofo7671]

i have a pentium 5 2g ram and ahdd which one do you recommend

[@Keizer_Soze]

"Better" linux DE options for older hardware would be lxqt (in your case it was in the form of lubuntu) and xfce 🙂 * whispers * surfshark flatpaaaaaaaak.... 🙂

[@XoLucyna]

You should have tried out manjaro xfce edition its really lightweight and works good i tried it on my old laptop which had only 2gb ram and very low specs and it ran fine

[@JamilAhmed-im6hp]

One question , Why only Lubuntu? There are also More lightweight better linux disto option like name a few, Antix linux , Bodhi linux , Linux lite?

[@SurfsharkAcademy]

I'll be honest I'm still fairly new to Linux, these distros were just the ones I saw being recommended online but I'll be sure to check the ones you mentioned, thanks !

[@JamilAhmed-im6hp]

​​​@@SurfsharkAcademyYeah, I have saw a lot of recommendations for Lubuntu, Maybe It's just like windows 7 with support for old laptop with hdd and cannot be updated more. Yeah, Lubuntu maybe will be the best linux distro as an all rounder linux distro😅And also Other linux distro like I mentioned has some cons like limited support , community , updates, etc. While Lubuntu having no cons so far as I know.

[@darkiceywolf2953]

My guess is because lubuntu is an official Ubuntu flavor, and it's the lightest official Ubuntu flavor. However, if you want to be as light as possible, then I would use anti Linux. I wouldn't use anything lighter than anti Linux because at that point, it's an independent distro. Furthermore, each have thier flaws for example. Most Linux distros use an init system called system d some people hate it because they claim it does not follow the Unix philosophy. I tried using Linux distros that don't use system d void linux, which is another good example. However, since 80% of Linux distros use system d, you're gonna be confused as the commands are slightly different between each init system. And from what I read, snaps require system d to run. I tested this myself, and the Snap store won't work on anti Linux because it's does not use system d. Furthermore, you will never see a Linux distro that does not use system d run gnome because from what I read, Gnome needs system d to function. Hence why you never see, for example, void linux ship with a gnome desktop. And if you're wondering what an init system is, it's basically a manager in charge of running all the processes. And since each one if different they will all function differently.

[@JamilAhmed-im6hp]

​​​​@@darkiceywolf2953As I read your comment, Yeah that Lubuntu is the lightest favour of Ubuntu, Im saying this Since , It can run on 700 mhz single core and 512 mb ram while others like Antix as you mentioned can work, there are cons and flaws like Though it can run better and smooth, most of these linux distro doesn't have much support , limited community , updates doesn't come frequently and Any problems you face with can be come instantly by just searching in Google, you have to solve the problem by yourself but in the case of Lubuntu , its popular and as soon as Ubuntu releases updates/Or any features , Lubuntu as early as possible releases in their os as well. It can run The basic apps and you can download more apps with no problem and the updates , software interface and etc, are good and no cons I see in Lubuntu except for few computers. I think, cuz of these reasons Lubuntu might be one of the best lightweight linux distro.

[@guidoopossum]

antiX is best "works out of the box" solution for old PC.

[@TrashPC_lol]

SSD and ram would do this thing so much justice! but it was quite impressive to find that a HDD ran fast once again, great video

[@hyperoson]

I brought back to live and installed Chicago95 (a win95 theme for XFCE) on top of my very lightweight distro (AntiX) running on an Intel Duo 2 GB DDR2 Dell D830 ThinkPad and I love it lol, I can experience the nostalgia on a modern, more secure and faster OS (I have a more "modern" rice with rounded edges, transparency, blur, like cool app launchers and all on top of my Arch with Qtile, its so damn clean and efficient to use) (I have only tried Ubuntu a little before and now installed Arch on a USB, on my PC, Debian on a touchscreen 32bit laptop and yeah AntiX)

[@k.b.tidwell]

I was given that very same laptop several years ago, and saved it with MX Linux. All of the Ubuntu derivatives give me problems on some of my low-end devices because Snaps just won't work on them, so disabling those is another setup process step that you don't have to do with Mint. My favorite Debian-based distro now is LMDE...awesome. But Arch feels snappier and more efficient, so I'm running RebornOS on my bottom-end stuff.

[@ArturdeSousaRocha]

I put regular Ubuntu on an old Dell with a HDD. It boots faster than my fresh work laptop from an SSD. Then I put Ubuntu on my 2017 MacBook Air that is no longer supported by Apple. It's smoother and more responsive than MacOS was. Just saying.

[@FranksCreativeCorner]

When a pc begins to run slow, it's easy to say that is because it's old and that's why it doesn't run that well anymore. But we never stop to question if the software is the problem. In fact, if the pc has been well taken care of, hardware is still likely to be very capable.

[@aryannarayannarotra3722]

I installed Windows 10 LTSB on my Core 2 Duo PC. On an SSD. that thing blew my mind right away slow? not anymore

[@xky2828]

Warning to all my friends: do not use Surfshark VPN! I had a terrible experience with their service, and their customer support was unhelpful and unprofessional. I paid for their VPN service but couldn't connect to any servers, and when I asked for a refund, they refused to give me one even though their own refund policy says otherwise. They kept dragging me along with empty promises and excuses, but never actually resolved my issue. I had to file a complaint with a consumer protection agency to get my money back. Save yourself the trouble and don't use their service.

[@da_pwo]

Ok

[@mattice9083]

I never had any problems. But sorry to hear that

[@oskark312]

i have linux mint on my laptop (and windows 7 for old games)

[@paolor.479]

LMDE 6 is great 😃

[@historicalchannel7835]

I have old Dell Latitude e6420 laptop which has hdd 500 mb space and 4 gb ram. I want to bring it back to life and for me my favourite lightweight linux distro is Peppermint OS. At least for me. My laptops works well and faster than before with it. I tried lubuntu but for me it was too ugly. I tried zorin lite but it was slow and from time to time it freezed for loong time and you can't do anything on it. So I chose Peppermint and for old hardware it became my favourite.

[@patricktrakzel9657]

Absolutely! Peppermint is a very good distro and runs well on older machines.

[@I401]

I know this video is old, but, Puppy linux will do amazing on this.

[@ThomasJAndrews]

Mageia 9 Xfce would run on it. It might have some issues if you try multitasking, or have too many Firefox tabs open at one time, but it would work. My brother is running Mageia 9 Plasma on a Core 2 Duo desktop, but the RAM has been upgraded to 8GB and it has an SSD. I also have it running on a Core 2 Quad with 4GB and no SSD. Slower, but still usable. BTW, Mageia is rpm-based, like Fedora, so it will not run your Surfshark Linux app, but it works adequately by using the Openvpn protocol with Network Manager. Still, it would be nice to have an rpm-based version of your app someday.

[@williamnessanbaum7464]

You should have tried 32Bit Ubuntu MATE Edition....

[@SurfsharkAcademy]

Maybe for a future video!

[@Minja-i3z]

There is no such thing as 32bit Ubuntu MATE, only 64bit.

[@stevejohnson1321]

3g of memory is very limiting, even for XFCE Debian. The used i-series are a bargain, especially year 2011 or later.

[@swagdudearcidon]

You got that venom-snake's-hand laptop

[@b3c5]

make sure to defrag the older hard disks, it probably explains the slowness on windows 7.

[@calholli]

MX is one of the best for light weight, but still full of tools

[@yvs6663]

ok. i mean not to mention you could theorethically run the OS from ram and still have more free ram than you would with windows(tho boot times might suffer with that method). while a core2duo should thorethically be enough to run windows 10, it would definetly be sluggish specially if there is an update happening in the background.

[@mjdegrey4843]

Swapout your HDD for an SSD. Install LMDE 6. Job done.

[@marcc5768]

you should have tested Mint XFCE for that laptop , not the Mate version. XFCE is much lighter on requirements. I use mint xfce on a core2duo laptop myself, no issues.

[@danieldougan269]

Photo editing? I am thinking RawTherapee and GIMP.

[@dhanushka_lakshan]

I have dual boot system with Windows 10 and Solus Linux also Windows installed on M.2 SSD and Solus Linux installed on regular laptop HDD but Linux much faster boot, shutdown and application loading. If Linux has native commericial applications that available on windows easily Linux get win.

[@auderfaleiro4365]

Yes

[@zadock6370]

imagine getting a laptop from 2005 with windows xp to be able to run youtube with few problems. I did that.

[@AlphanPeter]

Kubuntu linux works great on my hp laptop

[@paolor.479]

Xubuntu is lighter than Kubuntu

[@josephjoshi435]

Maybe try installing SSD and trying windows 8.1 onto that laptop

[@aperson1181]

Adelie Linux vs Mint, how are these compared? Lxde vs xfce?

[@j7ndominica051]

The security thing is FUD to push people to buy new software and VPNs. You can use WinXP or a stripped down Server 2008 on the PC, and use other old software of its time without compromising on the features. You still had to struggle finding a Linux that runs ok. It's a disgrace. All software today is made on heavy frameworks to display a basic dialog.

[@aathishnithin.v4607]

Are we able to make react development with it???

[@ObaidahNaseer]

Need to go reset bios security settings to boot from uefi

[@jgaming2069]

Lubuntu is one of the best linux distros ❤

[@vulnoryx]

For older pcs or laptops you may be right but if we are takling about newer and more capable computers than i would recommend something differen. (At least a different desktop environment)

[@человек-и3б7ь]

Fedora with lxqt my fav

[@BhushanPatil-gz5fk]

​@@vulnoryxI think mint is best middle ground between heavy and light distros with look and lightness

[@vulnoryx]

@@BhushanPatil-gz5fk especially for new linux users.

[@BhushanPatil-gz5fk]

@@vulnoryx yea

[@Leverquin]

i will tell you how to fix booting linux mint. when you turn on computer and see that text where you can choose to get to bios with del or f2. hold or clicks SHIFT or ESC to get to grep. Then You will need to chose option compatibility mode then boot normaly, get into desktop, set up driver and restart. that fixed mine mint 21.

[@Leverquin]

ps its XFCE

[@inf0g]

What about Puppy distro?

[@EugeniaLoli]

The "edge" version of Linux Mint would have worked with this laptop. The reason why the live usb worked but not the installed version, is because the live usb uses a newer kernel. The edge version of mint, that installs a newer kernel, would work with this laptop fine.

[@gregz83]

I am just now seeing this video and questioning that you were not able to get Mint Mate to boot. I see nothing about what you tried to do to troubleshoot it either.

[@SurfsharkAcademy]

It would get stuck on a bootloop, I've tried changing settings within Rufus, different USB sticks and Mint versions but nothing worked, I'd love to revisit it in a later video if there's time

[@rootcanal7188]

Thanks for the video. The only thing is that income tax software requires either a Windows or a Mac. From what I hear, Wine is hit or miss.

[@danieldougan269]

Mint XFCE might be the ticket since it's designed to be lighter.

[@SurfsharkAcademy]

Indeed I believe so as well!

[@adreto2978]

I installed mint XFCE on a dual core thinkpad yoga with 8gb ram. Pretty overkill but runs flawlessly out of the box and uses less than a gig of ram at idle.

[@ivinnium]

I use Mint Cinnamon on a 2013 celeron laptop and it works well if u disable animations.

[@paolor.479]

LMDE 6 👍

[@RaichuUser]

I literally am in the process of doing this.

[@MeR-md1jq]

I have an old laptop circa 2005. It is a 32bit machine with 2 gb of ram. It originally came with windows xp. I tried putting windows 7 on it but it just runs way too slow. Which distro of linux would you recommend trying? It has to support a 32 bit machine. I think Mint and Lubuntu are only 64 bit. Thanks!

[@CrackDavidson1]

AntiX, Q4OS (trinity edition) or eLive

[@selref399]

I installed archlinux on my laptop that has celeron N3060 2gb ram. I never got an os that works that good on this crappy computer.

[@FamilyAcc-yq8uj]

I had my windows xp pc from 2011 and i didnt upgrade it only for ram and now its working fine with windows 8.1

[@Minja-i3z]

Yes, but no more browser updates for 8.1 will force you to switch to linux in one year at the latest.

[@FamilyAcc-yq8uj]

@@Minja-i3z well I'm planning for creating my own lite windows 10 version and maybe windows 11 because my CPU supports x64 arc and Linux didn't work with me and the community for it is small

[@satellitegiallo]

@@Minja-i3z Chromium has updates.

[@astro_aviral]

I have Hp pressiro v2000 i need to revive it how can i do , i want to attend classes on it ?

[@zinovyrozhestvensky3636]

Well Linux you can get all the bells and whistles you just have to install them manually

[@juliar8806]

I have the same problem with linux mint. I tried many times to install it and always failed. Hopefully they'll find a solution to work around that in the near future. (Its always the hp laptops, i dont get it)

[@keithryan9620]

Worked for me on my hp 4530s by simply clicking uefi on (selecting UEFI) in the BIOS.

[@arunabraham9382]

Debian with flatpak. FTW

[@2PlayGaming]

If u want, try LocOs Linux too, very usefull OS!

[@paolor.479]

Manjaro Xfce or Bodhi Linux are much better than Lubuntu 👍 Just give them a try!

[@SamirOumghar01]

You can simply install on your old PC, Windows 10 Lite or Windows LTSC Edition, that's it.... 🙂

[@JoeHoeDoesSomething]

You're talking about a custom rom of Windows and a version of Windows made for enterprise where it's not easily available without skepticism (Don't install a pirated iso from the internet or a custom rom)

[@pelaajahacks8358]

just use gentoo, or arch because that laptop is way too slow, with hyprland

[@felipemartins9050]

try kde neon

[@Pleyer7575lol]

1:42 you pronounced it completely wrong

[@panditji-c2z]

No any linux support i think older gpu driver's 😅😅

[@MohamedBadawiEgypt]

Very True!

[@trp225]

yes and no. By no, I mean more distros are dropping 32 bit.

[@Sothus2]

Here’s what I’m thinking I have and old laptop slowly aging in the closet I have a desktop not laptop so what if I get old laptop and install light weight Linux to make it run bare ably and then use it as mp4/mkv player

[@goodgame281]

I rocemend using zorin os lite

[@davidedotto1594]

4qos the best for old pc

[@toasty-toast]

Linux plus google docs is more than enough

[@kvelez]

Great.

[@user-rk9kb2sd9b]

Crap hardware will always be crap hardware, no OS can fix that.

[@Gameplay-tg8qe]

bodhi linux

[@baminisabanathan2421]

Well if your laptop can’t support Linux,then it’s obsolete

[@Sharif_yazdan_p]

❤

[@xky2828]

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[@jubayerandmikuofficial]

Yes