I know Debian and others can breathe life into older machines. But i wonder if there are any distros with serious optimizations that I haven’t heard of. I’ve already tried MX Linux on an old Thinkpad SL400, and didn’t see any difference from plain Debian.
Update: thanks for the great suggestions. Forgot to say many distros feel zippy and fast until you open a web browser. Appreciate your thoughts on which web browser to use too. So far I’ve had a positive experience with Thorium and Chromium.
Puppy Linux is what I shove on old Atom netbooks
Can I run regular browsers on Puppy? Or have to use their own apps only?
I’m afraid I can’t answer that, It’s been quite a while. I think qutebrowser is the one that ships with it?
Subject lines on their forum suggest Firefox and Chromium are both possible.