Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
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Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
Me, my best friend and one other are now using Mint. But the last one have a slow 6 years old laptop. Which distro he should use for best experience?
By the way together we were all Windows users but...
By the way together we were all Windows users but...
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Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
I would give Lubuntu a try or even mint xfce.
If you could give us a few more specs on the machine it would help with suggestions
processor type and speed?
how much ram ?
If you could give us a few more specs on the machine it would help with suggestions
processor type and speed?
how much ram ?
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Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
Try out Crunchbang, a Debian based light-weight distro featuring openbox WM.
Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
Yep how much ram and type Cpu will dictate distro used.
xfce is a good choice.
But 2ghz with 2gb of ram then more choices of distro's to give a whirl with.
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xfce is a good choice.
But 2ghz with 2gb of ram then more choices of distro's to give a whirl with.
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Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
1 GB RAM, 2 GHz 1 core processor. It's old like I said.
Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
with 1gb ram xfce should work well. give mint xfce a try.
if that is still too slow - try lubuntu.
if that is still too slow - try lubuntu.
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Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
I find xfce far too slow on my netbook and have recently stuck Zorin 6.2 lite on it which is Lubuntu, found this via icyos's http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxNet ... ture=watch - only problem with Zorin is its absolutely UGLY. Going to try LXLE on there next. http://www.lxle.net
Just tried the LXLE as a live usb, runs really well on my netbook - I will be installing this tomorrow.
Machine: System: Packard Bell product: DOTS version: V1.01
CPU: Single core Intel Atom CPU N450 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB flags: Clock Speeds: 1: 1666.00 MHz
HDD Size: 160.0GB
MEM 1GB
It should work really well on a laptop.
Just tried the LXLE as a live usb, runs really well on my netbook - I will be installing this tomorrow.
Machine: System: Packard Bell product: DOTS version: V1.01
CPU: Single core Intel Atom CPU N450 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB flags: Clock Speeds: 1: 1666.00 MHz
HDD Size: 160.0GB
MEM 1GB
It should work really well on a laptop.
Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
He installed Mate and seems like it works pretty smooth.
Thanks for the answers. If his laptop is getting slow now I can give him a plenty of suggestions.
Thanks for the answers. If his laptop is getting slow now I can give him a plenty of suggestions.
Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
I installed LM 13 Mate on a 10 year old Compaq laptop with 650(ish)ram and a single core 1.6GHz processor, worked well.
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Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
not as old as mine....... Intel M 1.5mb + 1gb ddr2 and although boot time isn't brilliant [still faster than windows was] I run the full blown version M13 cinnamon1 GB RAM, 2 GHz 1 core processor. It's old like I said.
Re: Best Linux Mint distro for slow laptop?
I assume the XFCE edition would be apt for the configuration.