I have been gifted a few ancient laptops from the stone age (2005-2014). Any ideas on what I can do with them? Are there any modern Linux distros that would run on old hardware like this? I’ll take any suggestions this wonderful community has to offer.

Edit: The laptops are:

  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 days ago

    There’s gonna be a pretty significant usability difference between a 2005 laptop and a 2014 one, most modern distros would probably run just fine on the latter, while the former would want a specialized lightweight distro.

      • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        Throw a cheap SATA SSD and a second ram stick in the Inspiron 15 3537 or the Satellite C55 and you’ve got a decent little machine for productivity and browsing on a modern distro. The HP 2133 netbook was probably barely usable even in its time, and the Inspiron 1545 might be alright with a lightweight distro like puppy linux.