With bodhi legacy 32-bit on pentium 4 (and athlon64), I can do 360p youtube in a browser. With 512mb ram.

For 720p, need hardware acceleration, which isnt supported in linux browsers, and smtube will do that with its own smplayer, or with vlc.

Minitube will also do 720p with hardware accelration, but need new version, so is a little more complicated. But possible, if you dont mind building it. gotta add mc3man ppa for some stuff, gotta install qt512 from qt website, and get api key from google, then you can build yourself, even on 32-bit.

Could also do it 360p with slitaz in a browser too, but minitube and smtube available in their repos dont use latest youtube api so dont work. If you had the right url you could probably plug it into smplayer/vlc yourself.

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WOW!!!!! so youtube is getting really Hammered together with hi-end data compilation??? funny how my SAMSUNG BLUERAY player is playing you-tube videos rather Gracefully ,and ist only say 3 years old?? I for myself cannot sit down &do Command line stuff for you-tube -sorry , I use cli for netstat or proc or dmesg | more, when Iam building a system -having to type stuff in to get entertainment is just ,well Un~entertaining,,,.



bTW -Ihave a Dual CPU Tualitn servr board with 2.4 g Processors , my next OLD project -with adequate Memory could i watch youtube vides with this??

Regards - chilibowl

HMM BODHI!!?? thats adistrobution Ihave neverheard of???? it sounds good for Legacy hardware??? whwere can I grab it!!?

regards -chilibowl

Also maybe check out AntiX or MX Linux.

https://antixlinux.com/
https://mxlinux.org/

I would avoid loading bodhi unless you research it and it is really what you want.
I tried it and was less than thrilled.

The distribution does not render youtube videos, the browser does that. The distribution does determine how resources are allocated to the browser (and other processes), so can matter but the browser and available resource to allocate are more important. You do have somewhat limited resources. I would expand that memory if possible.

The very lightest of browser do not handle codecs and video well, as those take more memory and cpu and the light browsers are focused on small size and reduced cpu.

I have run TinyCore (CorePlus version actually) with Chrome browser (or Chromium, I am not sure I remember) and been able to view videos. There is nothing magic about TinyCore that would make it better than puppy for this purpose,

Best of luck in your search!

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www.bodhilinux.com

Direct link for 32-bit version: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bod...y.iso/download

I personally like it, but apparently not for everyone as the next poster mentioned. You can always live boot the ISO and see if you like it before installing. Theres a video on this site that shows it off, mainly playing with themes and icon sets etc https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/03/...lease-download

It comes with ephiphany (gnome-web) which probably works with youtube, dunno, cuz I usually install palemoon right away, which is in bodhi repos. Or firefox from ubuntu repos.

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Not exactly a Linux solution but you could check out Nomad-BSD. It's a persistent OS that runs off a USB, so everything is saved there. As I recall, it isn't especially resource-intensive either.

AntiX linux is a good debian based live distro, It uses icewm as it's default wm, and I managed to get it running on an old intel centrion with 1 gb of ram