I received an HP ProBook 455 G1 as a gift from my girlfriend’s father today. He has lost interest in it (also due to age). The notebook is in very good condition, has a 250 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM. I have planned to install EOS (Xfce or maybe Plasma) on it. However, I will not update it as often as my computer. It’s only meant to be a backup and test machine and probably won’t be turned on every week. The question is actually: Is EOS advisable at all then? I don’t like a Debian based distro!
The Life-Iso of EOS Apollo runs already quite well (the WLAN does not work yet though).
If EOS runs well… then there is no question anymore:
Install Arch the Wikiway, perhaps with XFCE. In my experience, Gnome and Plasma consume a lot of resources and throw more errors. But hey, anything runs on top of Arch, and mutiple DE’s easily, too!
Of course, I only ever went with much older hardware, so no btrfs-experience on my side yet.
Thank you for your reply. I know that EOS is a hen’s breath, that’s not the problem. The problem is that later I may not always get to do updates once a week. The issue is whether the system would be able to handle it then. Or then maybe rather the big M (anjaro)?
About the DE: I’ve been using Plasma myself for several years, so I know what’s coming. With Xfce, however, the update problems are reduced and I would have more peace.
