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.
I’ve had decent luck with Zorin Lite on older laptops. But here’s a list of others to try: https://www.slant.co/topics/12543/~linux-distros-for-old-notebooks-laptops
4gb is not enough lmao
I’d say go with opensuse tumbleweed/stable if you have ram
Arch+lxde if you do not.
If you want even better options, they exist.
I dropped my laptop (couple years old) and it is basically unusable. So, I’m looking to revive my really old laptop (15 year old).
For those asking specs. I think the hard drive has issues so I’m going to replace with ssd. The laptop came with windows 7 32 bit. So, because it came with windows 7 32 bit, the manufacturer says that it has max memory of 8GB. I know I putted 2X4GB sticks in it last time I used it which was 4 years ago. I’m not sure if the chipset supports 64 bit. Also, if I remember correctly, CPU was like first gen i3 with 1.8 or maybe just maybe 2.Something GHz and with like 3GHz turbo.
Thanks everyone. I might try Ubuntu, but most likely, I’ll go with Lubuntu, Xubuntu or Ubuntu with Mate. And, I will use it for some light coding and web surfing.
32bit Windows only supports 4GB without PAE enabled, so the manufacturer would/should have said 4GB max. Most 32bit distros ship with PAE enabled so it doesn’t care, however some distros like Ubuntu don’t ship 32bit anymore, but there’s some other good suggestions in the thread.
I’ve been running Void on a dual core Atom with 1862mb of ram. It won’t play 1080p video but it will browse the web fine.
A lot of it will come down to what you’re running for a desktop environment and software. I’ve got an old laptop with a duel core 2Ghz (x86_64) processor and 2G of ram, and running Debian with XFCE it can do basic web browsing, video playing/streaming up to ~720p, game emulators, etc with the same snappiness as a normal computer.
Ubuntu is a bit bulkier than Debian and some other Debian derivatives, so if you go with Ubuntu you’d probably make sure to go with a more lightweight ‘flavor’ with a non-gnome desktop and remove anything you don’t need.
Alpine and Puppy Linux are two other super lightweight distros that also might be worth checking out (albeit Alpine being a little more advanced and Puppy Linux being a bit limited).
I hope you have ssd and maxed out ram. 15 years is Core2Duo right?
Try HaikuOS, KolibriOS and the third option could be Ubuntu or Kubuntu. I’m sure Gnome and Kde will run just fine, but lxqt is marketed as the ost lighweight Linux DE.
But try Haiku and Kolibri for real even they don’t run on Linux Kernel.
Yes I will give it ssd and yes it has max RAM. We’ll see how it will do. Waiting on ssd.
