Reply 20 of 39, by mcfly
Slackware, Gentoo & similar still have SysV startup available, I wonder how long for? Besides IMHO, comparing recent Linux to for example XP does not make much sense, the difference in technology is 17 years, so apples to apples, we need more or less 2000ish version of Linux/whatever*nix to be adequate. Windows 10 will run on old hardware, but will it be pleasant or smoth? Linux has dozen window managers, Microsoft only one. I ran Debian with XFCE and NetBSD (also with XFCE) on Dell Cpx laptop p3 650+1GB RAM recently and it still responds ok for it's age - it's by no means compared to SSD systems or you cannot watch YT, but for simple stuff it works (if someone feels nostalgia to old hardware - like most of people here do 😀 ).