On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 9:39:27 PM UTC-10, sanne wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2017 03:24:59 UTC+2 schrieb dsi1:
>
> > There's nothing that speeds up an old computer like throwing everything
> > away and starting with a fresh OS.
>
> I did that with my old asus eee pc - netbook, not much memory, small ssds
> then. Much too small even for xp soon, so it literally lay around
> for years. A few years ago, I installed ubuntu on it - perfect! Well, not
> completely, but a new life for a very handy small computer.
>
> > I suppose that's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater but
> > then again, it's a fairly hideous baby.
>
> Sometimes (rarely) it is allowed to come out - microsoft has the copyright
> on ntfs and the tools to fix problems with that file system fast.
> But I don't allow windows to phone home - no lan when it's on!
>
> Bye, Sanne.

I think you have the right idea. Those Linux distros will work fine on older machines. You're also right that they're not perfect.