What is a good Linux distro for a 15 year old laptop?

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Zorin os LTE

Didnt know about the lite version. Cool!

Yeah, the website says this:

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Wow it even says 15 years like yours 😂

If it can actually make an old laptop usable that would be amazing. Better than tossing it out i guess?

Yeah, for sure. However available network speeds may be too little to do much.

Ubuntu Mate

I second this. It's what I use. Lightweight, no excess fluff to bog things down. Works great.

Exactly

I use Linux mint with the cinnamon desktop. I feel like it would run like a charm on older hardware.

This one will do the trick just fine https://sourceforge.net/projects/linnix/ 🙂

Go with the openbox version

Second vote for Ubuntu

running mint on an almost 10yr old laptop

Depends on specs...I'm running Lubuntu on a 10 year old chromebook with only 2 GB memory...and that's really pushing it. If you have at least 2 GB you can run Lubuntu--if not, then you're looking at one of the more lightweight distros--like Puppy (but those come with some compromises).

I'd try Lubuntu and see if that would suffice...

Zorin OS lite