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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by onli on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:59PM (#25732895)
Linux usually works perfectly fine with old hardware, a Intel Core2 Duo should be completely enough. That's even 64 bit hardware. Worst case you have to swap out Gnome with something more minimal, but that's unlikely.
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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by fuzxi on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:33PM (#25741127)
I'm currently running Manjaro with i3wm on a laptop with a core 2 duo. It came with a couple of simple conky widgets enabled by default and those probably took 5-10 seconds to load. Just boxes, one with static text and the other with load statistics. Resizing windows is a little painful, as is opening them.

I3 runs reasonably well, but Gnome would probably be too heavy to make for an enjoyable experience.

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