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What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)
submitted 8 months ago by Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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?