Made an ancient computer with very limited CPU usable for my siblings with Gentoo. The secret is to do USE="-* minimal" and enable things that are required fro

Made an ancient computer with very limited CPU usable for my siblings with Gentoo. The secret is to do USE="-* minimal" and enable things that are required from there. Compiling a custom kernel was actually necessary because it had a really old NVIDIA card that was no longer supported and I had to patch something to do with MTTR. Installed XFCE 4 and it idled with 70 MB of RAM used. Could play Youtube videos without the whole thing freezing whereas Debian could not. Gentoo is great.