Daily question. ha ha. Old old old PC, what distro to use so I can DL some tunes etc

[Kojack]

I have a 2007 acer 7720 with the core 2 duo 7200 chip, 4gb of ram and a 120gb OCZ ssd. It has a 750 gb spinny drive installed as well. I am wondering what distro would make it useable to download music to add to my collection.

Basic stuff will be done, nothing fancy.

 

[Brickwizard]

Basically the same spec as my old dell chassis [dosnt have a screen it broke] it normally runs my Parrot home edition or MX but for visitors and daily use I used LMDE on it

 

[kc1di]

MX or antx or Puppy would all run ok on that machine.
Debian would even run with a light weight Desktop. Say xfce, lxqt.

 

[deb_user]

Any distro using a lightweight DE. XFCE is my preference for that. Lots of distros offer XFCE, or it can be installed on almost anything. The main thing that differentiates distros is the package manager. They can all use the same DE, but some offer a custom DE. Choose a distro based on the package manager and update policies, because pretty much everything else can be the same.

 

[Condobloke]

using Linux mint....in the software manager......there is an app named 'Video Downloader'

It will download both mp3's or video's

But...only the flatpak app works. The system package is broken.

There is an app named Stacher7. It works but has an excess of options and is 340MB (approx) download.

Video Downloader also has a Homepage : https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader

 

[wendy-lebaron]

each "old" should be 10 years back right?

if you don't need to do any internet on that computer. you could get by with a 32-bit operating system.

but if you want to stream stuff from internet. it will be difficult. a more modern (powerful) computer would be needed.

it will be difficult most of all. because of security concerns. how much do you want to "tweak" firewall settings and stuff like that?

otherwise if the "old old old" computer. could still run a 64-bit operating system. could put deadbeef in there. to play back mp3 and ogg in the least.

for videos i don't know. mpv or vlc media player might be good enough. i try to avoid those two if i can.

i was going to propose a certain version. of an operating system that will become end-of-life in less than six months. with xfce desktop. my example almost jumps from computer turn-on to the log-in screen. nothing else i have is faster. but it will be longer. on a computer about five years older than mine. which also doesn't have ssd as internal disk.

 

[Rocketing-warp9]

To me, MX 25+fluxbox DE seems a good choice. Downloads and runs on a 08' Mac with 2 gigs of ram... not good for much but web browsing but works. on that hardware it should be just fine!