You will be able to run Firefox and Chromium, but they will be somewhat sluggish and likely to freeze or crash, in my experience.
Also, the suckless tools are really good for this. Back on my old Raspberry Pi, I used to be able to compile st and surf in under a minute, and dwm ran brilliantly.
~Source: my old Raspberry Pi, although arm-based, and my old MacBook had similar specs.~
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I have an old netbook that I was trying to use. It’s really slow tho. TOSHIBA NB510. Intel Atom.
Oh damn! Yeah, no, the old Atom series will be slow on anything other than, like, Puppy Linux.
Here are a few distros to try:
And here are some software substitutions:
You will be able to run Firefox and Chromium, but they will be somewhat sluggish and likely to freeze or crash, in my experience.
Also, the suckless tools are really good for this. Back on my old Raspberry Pi, I used to be able to compile
standsurfin under a minute, anddwmran brilliantly.~Source: my old Raspberry Pi, although arm-based, and my old MacBook had similar specs.~
arch with dwm and surf browser and TUI everything :)
Hey, if you can make it work, it would be a hell of a cool system. Very hacker-y.