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Ubuntu minimum requirements (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Anyone know minimum requirements to run Ubuntu. The main flavor as well as any other you want to share. Also, suggest any other distrio for a 15 year old laptop. Thanks.

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[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be useful to share hardware specs so that we can really recommend something for it. You will get best results by trying out multiple distributions and get a feel. Generally, almost any linux will do, problem will be browser so saving as much ram for it would be useful.

First suggestion: get some used SSD for it if it does not have it already (even 64GB will do), second get more RAM if possible.

Depending on the user I would first go with Linux Mint XFCE, that is lightest easy to use distro I have found.

For someone more advanced/less expectations Crunchbang++ is very light.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Generally, almost any linux will do

That really depends on the hardware. A year or two ago a friend asked me to install Linux on his ancient laptop. If I remember correctly it has x86 BIOS and CPU, or a x86 bios and x86_64 CPU.

In any case, it had a hardware combination that made it next to impossible to find a distro that supports it. I tried a few Debian derivatives, arch, void, maybe fedora, and some distros I found in top 10 distro lists for old PCs. The only one that I got to both install and boot was Bodhi Linux. Never heard about it before or after, and it gave up on updating like half a year later.

[–] DAT@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sounds like some of those asus transformer devices :D

in that case your problem isn't so much finding a distro to support that PC, but getting ANY distro to boot on it. It's possible and takes pretty much the same steps for any distro - it's just a horrible task for all cases.

[–] caos@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

With Ubuntu, the laptop should be very slow. If 32-bit is required, Linux Mint is also available as an LMDE version with 32-bit: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php If speed is particularly important, I would recommend Q4OS with TDE: https://q4os.org/ Sparky, MX or Raspberry Pi Desktop would also be an option. Crunchbang++ and Bunsenlabs are also very nice (and very dark). I had once tested some slim distributions here (article in German): https://gnulinux.ch/aktuelle-linux-distributionen-32-bit