What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop?

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social to Linux@lemmy.ml – 44 points –

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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The Distro is not important, just debloat it. Something like Alpine is actually smaller, but in the end the Desktop needs to be tiny.

Good point. Thanks

If you can run the Raspberry Pi Desktop that would be good. Wayland and I think very light.

I am thinking about installing that on Fedora, rebranding and all, to have an actually small Wayland Desktop, because the current options are either WMs or bigger Desktops

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