Linux version for elderly slow laptop

[David Fletcher]

On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 12:36 -0500, Gene Heskett 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.

+1

I'm running Mint 17 64 on an 8 year old home built Athlon desktop and a
maybe 3 year old Atom powered net book. It works beautifully. My GF is
running Mint 13 64 on an XP-era laptop in which I upgraded the RAM and
HDD. She's also very happy with the vastly improved performance.

Dave