50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC

crusty

Core i, 4GB RAM is old? Naw dawg.

Beijinger

Bodhi Linux may be a better idea: https://www.bodhilinux.com/ Not sure if it will get more updates in the future. I may consider this for the future: https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha

dist-epoch

I'm running Windows 10 on a 18 year old PC (2008 Intel Q9300, 8 GB RAM) It works for browsing the web and various non-intensive apps.

asveikau

A decade old PC didn't come with Windows 7, which shipped 17 years ago. It would have windows 10, which shipped 11 years ago, or conceivably 8.1 but I would doubt it. 4gb ram is also too small for that era.

wildzzz

Unless your PC is older than like twenty years, there's absolutely no reason you must use DSL or any distro that includes pre-x86_64 support. Gnome3 might be a little heavy on super crappy hardware but anything that comes prepackaged with XFCE is perfect for an older PC (Xubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, etc).

iamnothere

Tiny Core requires less than 50 MB of RAM and a 486. I like DSL but I’ve come to appreciate Tiny Core more. If you have a use case for an extremely light Linux system I recommend it. (I like it for single app GUI VMs.)