For a old laptop with Intel atom processor and I think 2gb ram.
If you’re new to Linux, try Lubuntu. If not, then try BunsenLabs.
I’ve tried Lubuntu on my old laptop from around 2008 and it works fine. It had more ram (4gb), but I don’t think it was using all of it.
Yeah it should be fine. But the OP needs to understand that even with a light OS setup, 2 gb of RAM really isn’t much. First Firefox tab or two is going to kill that poor machine. That’s why I added BunsenLabs as a lighter option. Still won’t be great, but it’ll be a bit better at least.
With the Atom processor, I had “best” result with Puppy linux whether from USB or actually installed to hard drive. I could run Lubuntu, MX, etc., Tiny core, for me, was a little too little and certainly not “fit and forget”. When I bought a new (to me) laptop with more RAM and later chipset, I still stayed with Puppy. There’s very little that can’t be done with it.
Just toss it.
It’s not worth it. Ram is dirt cheap, you can get 8gb for like $30. For $150-$200, you can find an used Thinkpad that will perform 1000x better.
I would only use such a machine for playing with old software like Windows 2000 or XP, old Linux distros.
