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		forinti 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphic... I tried a handful of small distros in order to give new life to an old laptop with an AMD C-50 and 2GB of RAM. The most responsive one, unexpectedly, was Raspberry Pi OS.

lproven 1 day ago [–]

Yep. PiOS Desktop (for x86) was a superb very-lightweight distro.

I carefully put a fairly minimal Xfce setup on it instead of LXDE and RAM usage doubled. It's impressively hand crafted and pruned.

Sadly, though, it hasn't been updated since Debian 11.

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