Hi, I have an old HP Notebook - 14-an018au, which has 4gb ddr3 ram and runs windows 10 on a 10 ish year old 1tb harddrive. This is a secondary computer, but it has a lot of old files from when I was like 13 years old that I want to backup, but I also have like 300gb of space taken up on the harddrive. So things like my chrome history, app settings, and unique files I would want to keep, but the large apps themselves I don’t want to keep. Also this computer is impossible to work on with its current operating system, so something which is a quick solution please.
And also, what distributions would you recommend that would a) work on this old computer and b) might be kind of fun to mess around with, as a secondary device
Anyway thanks
How familiar are you with Linux? I recommend lubuntu over xubuntu as it is much more lightweight, at the cost of being more barebones. Also look for guides to make a zram drive for your swap.
The biggest drain on resources tends to be web browsing and writes to disk, so try to minimize these.
I am in a similar position with a 32bit hp laptop, but I think I will try to experiments with a cli-only machine, and go with Debian.
I am largely a beginner, I run mint on my desktop, and have just figured out wine/lutris. But I’m pretty good at following instructions, and researching issues to find a way to fix it.
Check this out https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/08/enable-zram-ubuntu/amp/