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.

  • kugmo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    Whatever distro you install, make sure you enable zram, it makes old computers with low ram much more usable, and an out of memory killer too.

      • kugmo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’d still use an oom killer even on 6.1 which is the kernel Debian uses, mglru got improvements in following kernels like you said.

        • dan@upvote.au
          1·
          11 months ago

          The Linux kernel already has OOM killing… Do you mean something like Facebook’s oomd where you can more easily control it from userspace?

          • kugmo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            yeah, from what i remember the kernel’s oom killer isn’t that fast and external ones work better