A buddy of mine gave me an ancient 2007 macbook. I think itās 32bit, as Iāve only been able to get MX 32bit and Debian 32bit to work thus far. I tried Debian KDE and it was just awful slow. MX xfce seems to be doing well so far though. Itās a shockingly decent little computer to play with. Not so bad for free. I tried and couldnāt get Peppermint to boot from USB either. Any other worthwhile 32bit distros to try?
The Legacy 5.1.0 image utilizes an older Linux kernel that is optimized for old (15+ years old) hardware
Itās not the most beautiful operating system, so I wouldnāt recommend it for use on a daily basis. However, it was just what I needed to recover the data from, and then scrub, some (nearly) prehistoric IDE hard drives.
It was not as hard to install as I thought it would be. I found reading [HowTo] Install Manjaro using CLI only alongside the Arch install instructions was helpful.