Hello people of linuxforums! 
I’m looking for a suggestion as the title suggests, I have a friend’s old Sony Vaio (I’m not at the machine right now but can provide model number etc later if required) which I estimate to be from around 2005-2007. 80GB HDD, 1.7GHz Intel single core CPU with 512MB RAM. The laptop has only ever been used very lightly, and was running XP very smoothly and quietly, however I’ve obviously explained to my friend that to continue to run XP is not a great idea. It’ll be used generally as a back-up, mainly for web browsing and viewing YouTube videos.
I’m new to linux, having installed Mint 21.3 on one of my own desktops, and whilst I’m really taking a liking to it, I don’t think my friend’s laptop is going to have the hardware requirements to run such a recent distro, so… are there any suggestions?
Thanks!
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