What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop?
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.
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The only distro I could get to boot on my old Acer One was MX Linux.
It had the rare combination of 32bit UEFI support (cause the Acer supports neither 64bit UEFI nor legacy BIOS) and the necessary firmware out of the box.
But after upgrading it to the current release, it broke again. And then I threw the netbook away cause I have better things to do with my time.
Oh shit, what newest release did you upgrade to? I think I have MX21 in my Acer one
If you don't want to reinstall just cause you forgot your password:
https://linuxconfig.org/recover-reset-forgotten-linux-root-password
Thanks, that's actually a very clear tutorial. Definitely saving it
23, the one that is based on Debian Bookworm.
21.3 worked fine.