Linux version for elderly slow laptop

[Felix Miata]

Uriah Heep composed on 2014-11-07 19:14 (UTC-0500):

>> > 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?

> 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.

I wouldn't call that "slow". That is a lot more resources than I have
available on many installations running KDE satisfactorily, as much as 8X the
RAM, and double or more the CPU cores and MHz. How much power it takes to be
satisfactory is rather subjective. It also depends on how many apps, and
which apps, you keep open instead of closing when not in use. If you want
faster, it may make more sense to upgrade to newer hardware than changing
your DE. Instead of *changing*, add other DEs as already suggested, to see if
there's a perceptible difference that actually matters to you. And, before
doing anything else, make sure your installation doesn't have background
services that you don't utilize gobbling CPU cycles.

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