Linux version for elderly slow laptop

[Uriah Heep]

The laptop is an Acer aspire 4730z with am Intel Pentium dual CPU T3400
@2.16 GHz. It came with 2 gigs ram which I upgraded to 4 though info only
shows 3.8 Gib I also replaced the hard drive with a cheap 112 gig ssd
several years ago.

So far it seems Xubuntu and Lubuntu are the most widely suggested.  When
you say "Just install the packages Ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop. Then
you can select the
desktop at the login screen. " I am assuming I can use package manager to
install the desktops as I am really effectively a noob.

Thanks for the suggestions gentle folk.

Uriah

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Friday 07 November 2014 05:48:40 Uriah Heep did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > This post is obviously not specific to Kubuntu but as I use kubuntu on
> > my other computers and list members have been friendly and helpful in
> > the past I thought I might get suggestions here.
> >
> > I have one elderly slow laptop currently running Kubuntu 14.04 but I
> > suspect this machine might be better served with a Linux with lighter
> > resource demands but still with a GUI.
> >
> > Suggestions please?
>
> I have an older Mint 14 on my old hp with a single core turion cpu at
> 1.4ghz.  Considering the age of that DV5120us, it runs fairly well.
> So you might take a look at the latest Min, 17 IIRC.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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