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Nothing can save this tiny laptop from 2010.
2010 comes for us all.
Try AntiX, but don’t expect magic, especially when it comes to browsing the modern web.
AntiX runs quite well on my late 90s PC, and it’s just a Debian-based distro that still uses the Debian repos, but is optimized for extremely low spec PCs.
The modern web, especially with all of its JS and more modern video codecs, will be quite the struggle to run. YouTube still has support for h264 streams, so you can try downloading the video and using a local video player to play it, if you can get the h264 stream and your hardware has hardware decoding support. Not sure what codecs Peertube uses.
Hannah Montana Linux can do anything.
Is Peertube playback more efficient than YouTube on older hardware?
Probably not
The issue is that the GPU is to old to support modern codices
Not sure about video playback, but I feel like the PeerTube website is much more efficient. The YouTube website is amazingly badly coded…
You can probably do Youtube via mpv + yt-dlp. You’ll probably have to make sure you are only grabbing the codecs you have hardware decoding capabilities for, though. It’s not as convenient, of course, but it’s a lot less taxing on your hardware.
How’s Linux Lite these days? That was always my go-to for old machines.
It saved my 2007 laptop so maybe
1GB RAM is tough for a GUI and Firefox, maybe AntiX will work
Really need a minimum of 2GB then you can run ChromeOS Flex, or Linux Mint XFCE
I haven’t watched the video but the answer is yes, you just have to install a lightweight distro made for older hardware
