Yeah I installed that one you're thinking of.

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[–] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Mint is pretty much the de facto recommendation for absolute beginners freshly moving away from Windows right now, but LMDE especially will be subject to dealing with older software.

Otoh, any of the Puppy distros are a great option for genuinely old hardware; think AM2+/775 or older, that a lot of heavier distros may or may not struggle on.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Having Socket 775, Puppy Linux and genuinely old hardware in the sentence shook me.

    I still remember being in high school playing Minecraft on those Optiplexes, and even before that playing Poptropica and CoolMathGames..

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    775 is a 21-year-old platform and AM2+ is 18 years old.

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  • Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with you, more so making a comment on how it never occurred to me they were that old today.

    That being said, by the time I was playing with 775 computers they were pretty out of date (2013) and by 2015 all of those machines were replaced at my school. So in a rational sense that explains the time disparity I feel for Socket 775.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    but LMDE especially will be subject to dealing with older software

    Are you sure about this? As far as I know, debian modernized their repos quite a bit even compared to ubuntu, that also sparked some controversy from debian long time fans especially because they wanted more dated, stable software. Never used LMDE though, so I'm not sure if it applies

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