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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      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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      • ObsolesceO
        Obsolesce
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        Fedora MATE should work great.

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        • momurdaM
          momurda @scottalanmiller
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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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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @momurda
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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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            • dbeatoD
              dbeato
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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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              • gjacobseG
                gjacobse
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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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                • IRJI
                  IRJ
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                  I like Lubuntu

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                    Darek Hamann
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                    Something like Ubuntu+XFCE should do the trick.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Darek Hamann
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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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                      • matteo nunziatiM
                        matteo nunziati
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                        Any distro with a light desktop. Linux per se is not really memory hungry. Try lxqt/lxde.

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