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I want to revive an old Lenovo laptop with an AMD A6 2.6GHz and 4GB ram, what would be the best option for a DE?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Get an SSD as it will make your life way better

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I did that later but this laptop only supports SATA II speeds so it helped, but isn't game changing like it would be on SATA III speeds

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does it have a PCIe slot for an extra WiFi card? You might be able to adapt it.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

No it's too old and cheap for extra slots. But for 2011 it runs office stuff, zoom calls, etc perfectly fine. With w10 it was a complete brick.