What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? - eviltoast

It’s an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I’m reinstalling the OS, I thought I’d ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.

  • kugmo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’d still use an oom killer even on 6.1 which is the kernel Debian uses, mglru got improvements in following kernels like you said.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      11 months ago

      The Linux kernel already has OOM killing… Do you mean something like Facebook’s oomd where you can more easily control it from userspace?

      • kugmo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        11 months ago

        yeah, from what i remember the kernel’s oom killer isn’t that fast and external ones work better