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<body><div>Hi Deborah,</div><div><br></div><div>I settled on Lubuntu quite a while ago as my favorite 'Buntu. But I have a few laptops/notebooks of various makes and vintages in the house being used by wife and children, and for them I have pretty well standardised on LXLE, which is in turn a Lubuntu derivative offering a somewhat-XP like interface (I nearly said "user experience", but it's much nicer) as an option. It is aimed particularly at old, low-spec hardware.</div><div><br></div><div>It tends to be a little more frugal with resources than Lubuntu itself, and just seems a little slicker and easier for the not-too-computer-literate to use without bugging me for help. Check Distrowatch and its recent Weekly magazine.</div><div><br></div><div>The line-up of laptops includes a couple of Thinkpads, a Mecer, a Fujitsu-Siemens, the Lenovo G585 on which I write this, and I had a Compaq which was stolen from my car. The only machine I have where there are any problems with LXLE is an Acer Aspire One which uses an Intel Atom 2520 CPU and 2GB RAM. There is a problem with the screen size being reported in a way that confuses the driver system resulting in only the top half of the screen being used after login - VGA is fine. Hopefully I'll find a solution for the LXLE driver problem and get everybody on te same page. (Lubuntu itself has a similar problem.) </div><div><br></div><div>On this machine I therefore use the CrunchBang distro, descended from Debian, and very minimalist. On another machine I was able to install the Lubuntu interface on top of CB, but decided I preferred the minimalist version and haven't bothered to try it again on the Acer, but it could be worth the try.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my 2-bits' worth.</div><div><br></div><div>Basil</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:07:48 +0200, Deborah P <avisualthinker@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I have a Toshiba NB205 Netbook with an
Intel Atom N280 CPU and 2 GB RAM. Since the Windows XP that was
pre-installed is no longer supported I wanted to try an open source OS
and Lubuntu was recommended. <br>
<br>I've looked at some of the forum posts and still can't determine
which version of Lubuntu is best suited for my netbook. Can you please
tell me which version I need?<br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Deborah</div>
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