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.

  • kugmoEnglish
    6·
    1 year 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.

      • kugmoEnglish
        2·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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?

          • kugmoEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

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