<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>My thanks for all the excellent advice.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Nils Kassube <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kassube@gmx.net" target="_blank">kassube@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Uriah Heep wrote:<br>
> The laptop is an Acer aspire 4730z with am Intel Pentium dual CPU<br>
> T3400 @2.16 GHz. It came with 2 gigs ram which I upgraded to 4 though<br>
> info only shows 3.8 Gib I also replaced the hard drive with a cheap<br>
> 112 gig ssd several years ago.<br>
<br>
</span>Obviously Gene asked the right question - like the others, I don't hink<br>
that your machine could be described as slow and it should run Kubuntu<br>
just fine.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> So far it seems Xubuntu and Lubuntu are the most widely suggested.<br>
> When you say "Just install the packages Ubuntu-desktop and<br>
> xubuntu-desktop. Then you can select the<br>
> desktop at the login screen. " I am assuming I can use package manager<br>
> to install the desktops as I am really effectively a noob.<br>
<br>
</span>Yes, that can be done with the package manager. When you select those<br>
two packages it will also install a lot of other packages as<br>
dependencies. You will probably need another 500MB up to 1GB disk space<br>
for all the packages.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Nils<br>
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