Which Ubuntu?

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On 11/15/22 21:31, Robert Heller wrote:
> 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.
>

Why not just use Abiword and Gnumeric if you need office software? I 
believe those are fairly lightweight.


>> BW,
>>
>>
>> Ian
>>
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