Debian with xfce or mate or cinnamon may install and run well. I don't
recommend gnome.
+1
Funny story: A few years ago, I installed a Text-only Minimal Ubuntu system and then made one of the worst single commands in my career: "apt-get install gnome". What made it so bad was that, based on the sequence of previous commands, the fact that it was Ubuntu, and my Install Options, I ended up with Gnome Files for every Locale in the World! It took a while to clean this up!
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020, Davide Lombardo wrote:
> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 13:17:33
> From: Davide Lombardo <careless@live.it>
> To: Debian-user List Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Very old hardware...
>
> Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs:
> CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz;
> DRAM: 64 MB SDDR
> GPU: RIVA TNT-2
> HARDISK: 10 GB
> FLOPPY DISK DRIVE
> MODEM 56K
> In the receipt is written 3,000 Lire (1,500) Euro of today...
> Do you think I can install something different than the already installed
> WIN98 system ?
Brings back memories. That was the last one I could bring up, in command mode, with the command "win" bringing up the Windows Infrastructure. I tried to do that with Windows ME and was never successful.
Suggestion: Don't throw anything away: I think there are YouTube Videos, about running Linux on Floppy Disks.
Kenneth Parker