My cousin asked me to revive her decade old laptop. What's

pics?
[spoiler] of the laptop ofc [/spoiler]

Windows POSReady 2009

>>62197615
Puppy or Lubuntu would both be fine. As for "reviving" an old computer hardware upgrades might be a better place to look than software. SSD would definitely do it.

>>62197641
Haven't seen it yet.

>>62197651
>POSReady
>POS
Piece
Of
Shit

>>62197663
Puppy loads itself on RAM so it become really fast even on really old hardware.

>distro that a normie would find easy to use
one that doesn't need an upgrade to the next version every few months. normies like what they're used to. debian stable, ubuntu lts, etc.
"lightweight" aka runs well on older hardware mainly depends on the DE - something like lxde or xfce should be fine on a laptop from ~2005. libreoffice might be a pita to use on that, maybe try lyx instead.

>>62197703
This is also true.

>>62197709
Debian is hard for normies. Ubuntu is still a bit on the heavy side, even with the lightest DE.

http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm

> Runs from RAM, making it unusually fast even in old PCs and in netbooks with solid state storage media.

What if I install it (No Live USB)? Will it still run on RAM?

>>62197966
Yes.

>>62198007
Thanks

>>62197758
any distro is hard for normies. people used to throw away pcs and just got a new one if they wanted the latest version of windows. they are not going to upgrade unless they find someone to do it for them - that's why you want something that is supported for years.
installing updates on debian is "updates are ready to be installed" notification pops up, user enters password, updates get installed. only option to get even easier than that (from a user pov) is setting up a cron job for updates, at which point you're more or less distro agnostic.

>>62197615
Linux Mint
Seriously, it's good

>>62197615
ZorinOS Lite

>>62197758
That's what Mint is for

actually in this specific case. gentoo

>>62197615
OP cant "inb4", just so you know.

>>62198157
It's not lightweight enough for really old laptops.

>>62197615
make sure you clone the drive first for later forensic recovery of nekkid pics and vids

>>62197615
Tell your cousin to pay you or fuck off.

Xubuntu runs better than Lubuntu on my 2009 2GHz dual core laptop.

>>62197615
bunsenlabs is breddy good

>>62197615
>>62197683
That's putting that cart before the horse, see first what kind of laptop she's got and then decide on what software best suits it.
Generally speaking linux supports old hardware spectacularly well, provided your distro of choice didn't drop your particular architecture, which is so rare an event that it warrants an HN news thread.
I am of the opinion of looking into hardware upgrades, an ssd can change radically the experience we get out of a system, also if possible an OS that resides entirely in the ram can make even the oldest of computers run blazingly fast, puppy linux can do that easily, given enough ram, something of the order of one hundred but not more than two hundred Megs of ram, of course the more the better.