Dug my old laptop out (HP G60, Turion X2 64) - and installed Mint XFCE on it - so far it’s useable, but of course still slow. I’m amazed it works as well as it does (3 GB ram and an SSD). The CPU usage is at 100% a lot of the time.
My question is, what distros do you guys like for this age of laptop? This is a spare so more for messing around. I was thinking of trying Arch as I’ve hard it’s somewhat lightweight but not sure. I’ve really only used Debian since I’ve been on linux.
First-gen Turion processors don’t have any kind of acceleration for most of the vp9 and av1 compression used for video in http applications like yt, so even if you find it’s another process pinning the cpu, you won’t have a good time on this as a desktop.
Yt seems to play fine actually just a bit slow
Check CPU usage during playback, it won’t be pretty