So I have an old advent laptop which I originally bought with windows vista preinstalled around 6 years ago and now it's gotten very slow. I tried running Lubuntu and Linux Lite on it from a live USB to see if it might be an improvement but the screen would go into a flickering state after I choose to run from USB. This is definitely not the USB fault and the OSs were installed correctly cuz I tested the flash drives on my PC and it booted fine.
Here's the laptop that I have with the specs although I didn't get it from Aria
https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Laptops/Laptops/Advent+5421+Dual+Core+T1500+183GHz+Laptop+?productId=34727
I know it's by far better to just get a new one than bother with this old thing but I wanna make this one useful rather than it sitting there collecting dust. When I have enough money (currently a student looking for a part-time job) I'll definitely get a better, newer laptop like a zenbook or something (the zenbook 3 looks pretty great although I haven't looked into it in too much detail yet and this is really off topic)
My question is what OS I can install on it that would work and use the least resources, maybe previous versions of Lubuntu and Linux Lite but which ones. The main thing that I'll use the laptop for in the meantime is python and PyGame as well as the typical internet things like research and youtube
Here's the laptop that I have with the specs although I didn't get it from Aria
https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Laptops/Laptops/Advent+5421+Dual+Core+T1500+183GHz+Laptop+?productId=34727
I know it's by far better to just get a new one than bother with this old thing but I wanna make this one useful rather than it sitting there collecting dust. When I have enough money (currently a student looking for a part-time job) I'll definitely get a better, newer laptop like a zenbook or something (the zenbook 3 looks pretty great although I haven't looked into it in too much detail yet and this is really off topic)
My question is what OS I can install on it that would work and use the least resources, maybe previous versions of Lubuntu and Linux Lite but which ones. The main thing that I'll use the laptop for in the meantime is python and PyGame as well as the typical internet things like research and youtube