Linux version for elderly slow laptop

[Billie Walsh]

On 11/07/2014 06:14 PM, Uriah Heep wrote:
> 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
>

I have an Asus EeePC, atom processor, 2 gigs, and a 64 gig SSD. It's 
running Kubuntu 14.04 just fine. I would think yours would be fine, 
depending on your use.

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