Linux version for elderly slow laptop

[Uriah Heep]

I believe that you are right and my problem is one of perception. I seldom
use the laptop and my main system had given me a distorted view. Big
difference between I 7 @ 4.8 gigahertz with Samsung 240 pro ssd.  That said
Xubuntu does seem a good bit more spritely especially after severely
limiting non essential processes.

My thanks for all the excellent advice.

On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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