Linux version for elderly slow laptop

[Nils Kassube]

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.

Obviously Gene asked the right question - like the others, I don't hink 
that your machine could be described as slow and it should run Kubuntu 
just fine.

> 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.

Yes, that can be done with the package manager. When you select those 
two packages it will also install a lot of other packages as 
dependencies. You will probably need another 500MB up to 1GB disk space 
for all the packages.


Nils