Linux distro for low-end laptop
I've never used any Unix-based OS and know little about them, but I'm interested. I can't get the exact specs right now (kid sleeping in the spare room) but seeing as it's a school laptop from the vista era, if I had to wager a guess it couldn't have more than 2gb ram and around 1.7GHz dual core.
If I'm using the lappy almost solely for programming and casual browsing, what distribution(s) should I check out? I mainly want something accessible to someone who has used Windows his whole life, with an overall light footprint
December 26, 2014
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[quote=mmorpg]Ubuntu or Linux Mint. They're both newb friendly. Or something like Elementary OS.
Instead of dualbooting you could try running it off a virtual machine.[/quote]
I'm literally writing this now in a test install of Ubuntu, it's alright so far. At least, it pleasantly surprised me.
[quote=ZaraByte]I'd stay clear of Ubuntu better off with like Gentoo or Archlinux.[/quote]
Maybe Arch. Not interested in the headache of installing Gentoo.
[quote=ZaraByte]Dude you don't need that good of a computer to run linux you can run linux off a 667mhz CPU with 64mb of ram and linux will run just fine.
I'd stay clear of Ubuntu better off with like Gentoo or Archlinux.
I use Debian for Desktop and CentOS for servers.[/quote]
Not sure why but when I installed Ubuntu my computer was lagging.
Ubuntu or Linux Mint. They're both newb friendly. Or something like Elementary OS.
Instead of dualbooting you could try running it off a virtual machine.