Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008? MacBook Pro?

From	Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de>
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Subject	Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008? MacBook Pro?
Date	2022-06-19 12:25 +0200
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On 19/06/2022 02.33, Robert Heller wrote:
[...]
>>> I have a 14 years old old MacBook Pro (15" A1260 model, unibody; 2.4 Ghz
>>> Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB (667 MHz) of DDR2 SDRAM, 200 GB HDD, NVIDIA
>>> GeForce 8600M GT (256 MB of VRAM), & Mac OS X (El Capitan v10.11.6))
>>> from early 2008. Its software are too old, unsupported, and too slow.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking about replacing them with Linux, but which one would be
>>> suitable for it? I still want basic GUI like web browsing. I remember
>>> trying doing the same for an old PowerBook G4, but I couldn't get its
>>> wifi to work with various Linux installations. I hope this won't happen
>>> again with it.
>>
>> Do you really believe that Linux, magically,
>> will make things faster, better?
>>
>> A modern web browser alone will eat up all
>> the available RAM in few tabs...
> 
> I've run Firefox with with like 6-8 windows (maybe as many as 10-12 tabs
> total) on a machine with only 2 Gig of RAM (still do [different machine]). I

Oh, come on!

Wasn't enough clear the example?

12 tabs with what? All with heavy javascript,
graphics, animations, videos?

And having also "libreoffice" with some large
document(s) open?

And... And... And...

The point is that the "desktop usage", or
"web browsing" means nothing.

If the system is slow with the current OS,
does not mean that Linux will make it
suddenly faster. By magic.

Clearly, one can strip down everything and
browse the web with "lynx" or "links" or
whatever is that.

Is this what the OP wants?

bye,

-- 

piergiorgio

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      Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008? MacBook Pro? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2022-06-19 12:25 +0200
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