So i found this laptop at the company i work in it's an old nec versa c200 it has 200Mb ram and the hard drive is dead i couldn't find a replacement for it so i found another solution since it can boot up with CD/DVD (this laptop can't boot up with usb flash drive) i grabbed the biggest storage CD-R i can find (700mb) and burned wary puppy 5.5 in it but it took the laptop nearly an hour to boot up (i had to make it run completely on the CD since it ran out of ram in my first time booting it) fortunately it did run the system smoothly enough for an old machine

That's why i need you're help if you have any recommendations for a destro that can run in this hursh environment

It's nothing serious just an amusing experiment on an old laptop

Thank you

Specs: 8gb ram

1tb hdd

IMAC 2011 27"

I will use it and i also want web browser and apps recommendation

(Its my daily driver and has to support flatpak)

If this is possible please comment :))

I've been hopping for a while, trying to troubleshoot different issues and i've concluded that something running kernel 7.1.4 at least is my best bet.

There is a bug affecting my wifi HW specifically that was introduced in 7.1 but fixed in 7.1.4.

I also was recommended to run something more recent due to my apparently new GPU that's not that well supported on older more stable kernels (RTX 5070TI) that i tried and on which i had issues with resolution & sound through HDMI.

i'm open to anything as long as it works for my system.

side question: is distrowatch a good source of checking distro details (in my case what kernel and nvidia drivers come with what distro) or do you have an alternative website?

Thanks in advance