What Linux Distro for old computer
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If you are bold use, window managers only like i3.
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that's plenty of power to use a normal distro. Don't get weird, the era of special small Linux for ancient hardware is gone. Old hardware today is powerful enough to run normal distros.
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Fedora MATE should work great.
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@scottalanmiller 2GB is not enough for Fedora workstation, or ubuntu desktop. Unless you like waiting a lot. I have tried it.
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@momurda said in What Linux Distro for old computer:
@scottalanmiller 2GB is not enough for Fedora workstation, or ubuntu desktop. Unless you like waiting a lot. I have tried it.
Enough with a lighter desktop. Should work just fine.
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Deeping might but I am not sure what kind of CPU, Puppy linux is small like 50MB or so and low usage of RAM but it can take a toll on RAM with KDE the last time I used it.
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Korora and Deepin are out - they caused issues with some of the external hardware I need to be able to work with.
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I like Lubuntu
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Something like Ubuntu+XFCE should do the trick.
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@darek-hamann said in What Linux Distro for old computer:
Something like Ubuntu+XFCE should do the trick.
That's what I was thinking. XFCE works really well for me.
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Any distro with a light desktop. Linux per se is not really memory hungry. Try lxqt/lxde.
