Yea it would run on it linke any other distro, but you wouldn’t be able to multi task. I reasently installed Debian 32bit on an lenovo ideapead from 2013 with a 1 core 2 threads at 1.2ghz, 2G of ram and a HDD it runs KDE Plasma and will load anything as your pations are strong enough
But you could also run Alpine it will probably use less ram then debian. But I am farmiliar with apt, systemd and gnu software so years. It is easier for me to give it to my small step sis as a research device with Firefox. I think Debian with KDE plasma uses about 630MB and with xfce around 300-400MB. But I think she is better of with KDE as she primary uses windows in school and it looks more like it
![[Xfce] Switched to Alpine today](https://i.imgur.com/aXAOL91.png){kind=link}
Alpine on a chromebox/chromebook?
yea
Could it run on a old desktop? (Core 2 duo, 3gb ram, HDD, ati sapphire x1650)
I don’t have anything else and windows is absolutely shit on it (yes it’s a 64 bit system)
Yea it would run on it linke any other distro, but you wouldn’t be able to multi task. I reasently installed Debian 32bit on an lenovo ideapead from 2013 with a 1 core 2 threads at 1.2ghz, 2G of ram and a HDD it runs KDE Plasma and will load anything as your pations are strong enough
But you could also run Alpine it will probably use less ram then debian. But I am farmiliar with apt, systemd and gnu software so years. It is easier for me to give it to my small step sis as a research device with Firefox. I think Debian with KDE plasma uses about 630MB and with xfce around 300-400MB. But I think she is better of with KDE as she primary uses windows in school and it looks more like it
It should run perfectly fine, Alpine is made to run on low-end machines and containers