Almost any old Laptop can be made useable again by upgrading the HDD to SSD. Then Linux (eg.g. Mint or MX Linux) works just wonderfully.

(Writing from such an old laptop on the terrace)

#linux #upgrade #oldhardware #mint #mxlinux

As others have suggested #Mint.

I have been a Windows user for many years but am a recent #Linux newcomer. Now retired I have been investigating various distros that a) I can understand and use without too much of a learning curve and b) will run on my ancient laptop reasonably speedily.

I have tried a number of lightweight distros to try to improve performance but they just leave me confused. #Mint does what I want and it's easy to navigate.