Laptop: Acer Aspire One D260

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Releases

LMDE 5

Compatibility

Works fine with some minor problems

Description of the hardware

Linux Mint System Information:

System:
Host: paulchen Kernel: 5.10.0-22-686 arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: Cinnamon
v: 5.6.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.24 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: LMDE 5 Elsie
base: Debian 11.2 bullseye
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: AOD260 v: V1.08_Vodafone serial: [filter]
Mobo: Acer model: AOD260 v: V1.08_Vodafone serial: [filter] BIOS: Acer v: 1.08_Vodafone
date: 06/29/2010
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 7.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 7.5/48.8 Wh (15.3%) volts: 12.5 min: 11.1
model: SANYO AL10B31 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: full
CPU:
Info: single core model: Intel Atom N450 bits: 64 type: MT smt: enabled arch: Bonnell rev: A cache:
L1: 56 KiB L2: 512 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1500 high: 1639 min/max: 1000/1666 cores: 1: 1361 2: 1639 bogomips: 6650
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: PowerVR SGX535 ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:a011 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: ALi Gateway Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0402:9665
class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 with: Xwayland driver: X: loaded: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: i915 gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x600 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 270x158mm (10.63x6.22") s-diag: 313mm (12.32")
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 mapped: LVDS1 model: AU Optronics 0x60d2 res: 1024x600 hz: 60 dpi: 118
size: 220x130mm (8.66x5.12") diag: 255mm (10") modes: 1024x600
API: OpenGL v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Pineview M x86/MMX/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:27d8 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k5.10.0-22-686 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.19 status: off with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: off
2: pipewire-media-session status: active
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: atl1c v: kernel
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 5000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:1062 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: [filter]
Device-2: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter driver: wl v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4727 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: [filter]
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Acer Bluetooth module type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 5-1:2
chip-ID: 0489:e011 class-ID: fe01 serial: [filter]
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: [filter] bt-v: 1.2 lmp-v: 2.1 sub-v: 4277
hci-v: 2.1 rev: 535d
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 8.51 GiB (3.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK2565GSX size: 232.89 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400
serial: [filter] rev: 2J temp: 34 C scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 68.75 GiB used: 8.49 GiB (12.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 21.7 MiB (1.1%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 162 Uptime: 7m wakeups: 9 Memory: 989.1 MiB used: 755.3 MiB (76.4%) Init: systemd v: 247
target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2095
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.26

What works:

Basically, LMDE 5 Cinnamon 32-bit works correctly. Even Cinnamon runs with hardware acceleration enabled. Which is suprising when taking into consideration what has been explained below.

What does not work:

This Acer Aspire One D260 does not fulfil the minimum system requirements for running LMDE 5.
The Atom N450 single core CPU is not powerful enough.
The internal Intel Graphics chips is not powerful enough.
The built-in 990 MB main memory is insufficient.
As a consequence, LMDE 5 runs in an extremely slow manner on this netbook.
Watching (Youtube) videos is actually impossible.
In brief words, this machine will teach you the beauty of an extremely slow life style.

What does work:

Visiting the Linux Mint forums, reading and writing posts there does work.
Visiting Github does work, obviously.
Surfing the web does work, but avoid any bloated websites, which display a high number of advertisements.

Optional - Notes

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