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Hi Bill, <br>
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I've had a lot of success installing Ubuntu with the Cinnamon
Desktop. Just install Ubuntu as usual, then install Cinnamon, and
use that as the GUI. The Cinnamon desktop is much lighter on system
resources. (I actually now use it on my own laptop too) There is the
added benefit, when changing clients from Windows, that Cinnamon's
layout is more like Windows too.<br>
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Robin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/13/2016 09:19 PM, Bill Cairns
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<div>I have an oldish (2006) Lenova Thinkpad laptop which I am
thinking of upgrading from XP to Ubuntu. It has a fairly
decent configuration: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00 GHz
777 MHz 0.99 GB of RAM. 80 GB drive.<br>
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What flavour of Ubuntu would you recommend? I would prefer a
full Ubuntu system using Unity but am worried that I might be
pushing too hard. I have run Xubuntu happily in the past but
have no experience of any of the other possibilities.<br>
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