Easy Distro for websurfing with old laptop. Possible?

[MaxTheFast]

I've got an old acer tm notebook with 32bit 1.6 ghz centrino cpu and 1.25gb ram (I guess DDR1 270mhz but I can be wrong). I still use it sometimes just as an "emergency" machine, eg. as an addition backup space for my storage, if I want to write something with old office within win xp environment and to run other old sw, but I can't use it to surf the web because I cannot install any AV else win xp would freeze. I could upgrade ram from 1.25gb to 2gb but I don't want to spend extra money for it and it would take me about 2h to change the 256mb inner ram (the outside ram has aldready been upgraded).

I've been using only this machine from its "creation" until about 1 year ago and I solved the websurfing problem using PaleMoon browser and some plugin like adblock to avoid loading the "heavy" content of today web pages. It was a situation full of limitations because I couldn't open more than 2-3 pages at the same time -and dangerous too due to no AV and the obsolete OS- but it was good enough for me.
Now I'd like to use sometimes this old acer to surf the web, so I'm thinking to get a linux OS to avoid AV and a web browser with right plugins able to load only the fundamental content of the web pages, I mean avoiding to load flash content and everything the would freeze the 1.25gb ram.

My level of knowledge of linux is "dummy" because I've only been using ubuntu 18.04 from 1 year so I'm used to work almost with GUI and not with the terminal. Therefore my goal is to get a low ram usage linux distro that is "easy" too :)

[Scott Vargovich]

Hi there,

There are 4 that immediately come to mind as great for old hardware,  Bohdi ( https://www.bodhilinux.com/ ),  Puppy ( http://puppylinux.com/ ), Tiny Core ( http://www.tinycorelinux.net/ ), and Solus ( https://getsol.us/home/ ).  There are numerous others.  Google "minimal linux distros" and you'll come up with a lot more.  I've played with these 4.  Solus comes with several different window managers.  My suggestion is to try Budgie.  Not only is it lightweight, it's what Solus started with.

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