Which Ubuntu?

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:40:40 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 at 21:28, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > I like to use old computers as long as possible myself. However, giving
> > very oldish computers isn't charity. What kind of "I.T. tuition session"
> > is it? Depending on the answer those old computers might be ok and you
> > probably don't need to run X at all or they are garbage, because they
> > are unsuitable to run modern software and therefore unsuitable.
> >
> 
> Very basic stuff. Mainly using an office package (LibreOffice) and using
> the desktop GUI.

Unfortunately, LibreOffice is likely to be something of a "pig" and not run 
well on an older and underpowered machine very will.  And the same is true of 
a "modern" (bells and whistles) desktop GUI.

These older machines are probably more suited low-end desktop GUI (what might 
be termed a less-user-friendly desktop GUI).  And maybe for a more nerdy / 
old-school-UNIX-ish user, using mostly CLI, simple text editor, coding, and 
being patient waiting on compiles.  And probably not newbies playing with word 
processing.



> 
> BW,
> 
> 
> Ian
> 

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