<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>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.<br><br></div>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<br>
desktop at the login screen. " I am assuming I can use package manager to install the desktops as I am really effectively a noob.</div><div><br></div>Thanks for the suggestions gentle folk.<br><br></div>Uriah<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Gene Heskett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gheskett@wdtv.com" target="_blank">gheskett@wdtv.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Friday 07 November 2014 05:48:40 Uriah Heep did opine<br>
And Gene did reply:<br>
<div><div class="h5">> This post is obviously not specific to Kubuntu but as I use kubuntu on<br>
> my other computers and list members have been friendly and helpful in<br>
> the past I thought I might get suggestions here.<br>
><br>
> I have one elderly slow laptop currently running Kubuntu 14.04 but I<br>
> suspect this machine might be better served with a Linux with lighter<br>
> resource demands but still with a GUI.<br>
><br>
> Suggestions please?<br>
<br>
</div></div>I have an older Mint 14 on my old hp with a single core turion cpu at<br>
1.4ghz. Considering the age of that DV5120us, it runs fairly well.<br>
So you might take a look at the latest Min, 17 IIRC.<br>
<br>
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