I have a very cool Core 2 Duo laptop here that runs Linux Mint.
And it is pretty aweful. Would love to put Fedora Kinoite (Atomic KDE) on there, manual upgrades on shutdown, minimal set of apps.
But I dont know how well Plasma works on such old hardware. It is pretty bloated and messy sometimes, Dolphin and plasmashell are my biggest worries (the whole panel and widget stuff is sooo complex).
Has anyone tried Plasma?
An alternative would be LXQt with KWin once 6.1 comes out and it has full Wayland support.
Yes. Look up the upgrade process for the laptop. 9 times out of 10 its just pop the bottom off. The other 1 is like the old dell laptop I upgraded. The laptop had to be nearly 100% disassembled outside the screen. The HD was sandwiched between 3 different PCB at the center of the lower half. Bit of a nightmare. The HP, Lenovo, Acer laptops I’ve worked on we’re simple. And the ssd swap made them almost like new. I had a core 2 duo mackbook I upgraded the drive too. Made it very usable.
I have a Clevo NV41 which is hillariously easy to disassemble. Worlds bettet than my Thinkpad T430 or the better T495. Not as modular though.
@Eldritch
Both my Dell Latitude XT, and my Latityde e6440 had ewsy to swap storage. The latter literly had the hard drive slide in in the side, with a standard sata interface.
@boredsquirrel
Good. It was a 2012is model laptop. So hopefully they learned better. That was a rediculous difficult upgraded.