what version of mint would you recommend for my laptop?

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Antony

what version of mint would you recommend for my laptop?

Post by Antony »

hello, everyone just wonder which version of mint would you recommend for my laptop that will give me the best performance its running windows 7 atm and runs like crap :P, i use mint kde 13 on my desktop pc.

my specs are:
AMD v140 2.3ghz single core.
2gb of ram 1.7 usable.
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
250gb hdd

thanks for taking the time to help this newb out :P
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claudecat

Re: what version of mint would you recommend for my laptop?

Post by claudecat »

Since you are already used to Mint 13 KDE, there is no reason not to run it on your laptop as well. KDE is not as resource intensive as many would have you believe, and with your specs and a little fine tuning, you should be fine. I've happily run Mint KDE on machines with 1gb ram and atom processors.
artsci2

Re: what version of mint would you recommend for my laptop?

Post by artsci2 »

Claudecat has a good point. try the one you are used to first.
If that doesnt work try Mint 13 Maya Xfce 32 bit version.
I have it on an EeePC 900 (900MHz Celeron) with 2Gb RAM upgrade and the original 16GB super slow SSD.
With windows XP this was a usesless machine because it was such a snail.
Now I use it to browse the web a lot with it.
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