I bought an old HP chromebook cheap on ebay that came with Zorin OS installed. It isn’t much, but just about manages to do what I need. The trouble is, Zorin seems kind of bloated and the Chromebook hasn’t got much memory. I don’t even have enough space to install updates.

I’m comfortable with running a pared-down OS that might be a better fit for a tired old Chromebook. What might work better than Zorin?

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Edit: ZorinOS is immutable, relying on flatpaks (high I/O and btrfs deduplication), no?

    I’ve not seen anything about ZorinOS being immutable, it’s basically just Ubuntu with some stuff on top. By default it uses ext4 and the software store has access to flatpaks, but also snaps and typical native linux software.