Friend has an old laptop with windows 10 that he doesn’t use because too slow and freezing all the time. Wants to revive it to leave at his lab in grad school for browsing the internet and editing stuff on google docs so he doesn’t have to carry his newer laptop everyday.
I suggested Linux but I myself always used Debian and I am not sure it will run decently with such low specs. Was thinking maybe Debian 11 with xfce or something? Any better options?
I run a debian + gnome on a 2gb ram 2in1 tablet. I am using it mostly to read manga in komikku Sometimes the desktop enviroment just stalls for 15s-120s. After couple of days of uptime. Then I usually just restart it with ssh connection or phisical button. The zram and 8gb of swap space helped with stability.