Will Arch run smoothly on this old CPU?

QUESTION

I've got an old CPU from a friend which was lying around in his house unused. It's in working condition, currently running windows 7. I was wondering if Arch with a window manager like i3 or awesome would run smoothly on this 3rd gen old hardware.

Here’s the specs.

Intel Core i3-3210 CPU @ 3.20GHz 256 GB SSD 8 GB RAM X64 -based processor

Posted Jan 27, 2026, 11:43 AM UTC

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