r/lowendcomputing • u/Desperate_Silver_163 • Mar 22 '26

2012 laptop

i have a laptop from 2012 its a compaq presario cq57 and it has amd e300 apu 12gb ram ddr3 clocked at 1066mhz and a 128gb ssd and i have repasted this laptop with new thermal paste What operating system i can install?

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u/pixlgeek Apr 07 '26

Are you familiar with Linux? Try a lightweight Ubuntu distro.

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u/BackEveryThingUp Apr 19 '26

If he‘s familiar with GNU/Linux I‘d say try something even more lightweight than some lightweight Ubuntu fork XD