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What’s wrong with installing WinXP+office and calling it a day? Even if someone fulfilled your request and got an up-to-date browser etc working on your 256MB laptop Would YouTube even work?

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>256MB laptop Would YouTube even work?

mpv + youtube-dl, yes, it would.

The article wants it to "just work"

I have an old laptop running XP, and I hoped to improve it by installing Linux. It got much slower. So yes, XP is a good candidate, IMHO.

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