colorpurple21859,

Yes I did several times without any luck.

Bob
marklin777

colorpurple21859,

In response to your question "Is the Dell a newer system?", yes it is. I purchased the Dell laptop sometime before 2011. My Compaq 6000 Series, the computer I am presently troubleshooting Linux on, was purchased in 2003.


Bob
marklin777

The Compaq's Athlon CPU lacks SSE2 instructions that many apps and operating systems require. This recurring requirement is getting harder and harder for developers to workaround, in part because so few Athlon users remain, and even fewer developers care to try to deal with so slow a hardware class. It's a variant of the proverbial chicken and egg problem, little to no Athlon-specific testing. It may be that there no longer exist any web browsers that do not require SSE2. I retired the last of my working Athlon PCs last year.

If you want to keep trying, make sure Stretch isn't trying to boot using something that depends on SSE2, possibly Plymouth or the GDM or LightDM login greeter.

I suggest you'll likely be better off trying AntiX, Puppy or some other ultra-lightweight distro intended for ancient hardware, unless you find their hardware requirements exclude non-SSE2 hardware such as Athlon.

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