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athlon
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Linux Mint MATE, Lubuntu or something else for this old PC?

Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
2 GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 1800

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  • 1
    I'm setting up an Acer Aspire One, and looking at Bodhi, Mint XFCE, or maybe Elementary.
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    Mint didnt like quadro for me, try elementary
  • 0
    Doesn't anyone use slackware anymore?
    I had good experiences with Porteus on old computers, from centrinos to atom.
    Very fast and light, easily configurable and just the barebones essentials
  • 0
    Oh well they discontinued the build system. It was great for kiosk mode, gave away a lot of pcs with it installed :(
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    Windows 95 or Windows 2000
  • 1
    @Mitiko Maybe Windows 1.01? 😒
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    Debian with LXDE, but Xubunu should definitely work great too.
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    @athlon
    Do you want to use it to work or surf the web? If the latter I'd suggest cloudready, it's kind of like chrome OS, pretty light.
    I installed on my dad's old Asus (it's like 10+ years old) and it runs great. Windows 7 and Linux mint ran pretty slow after some time on it but cloudready is doing well
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    @eeeddr it's actually meant to be used for video consumption connected to TV
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    @athlon
    Using kodi?
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    @eeeddr Well I'm trying to run it, but every time I do I can use mouse for like 5 seconds and then it's stuck
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    @athlon
    I'd say try installing arch with the lightest desktop environment you can find. If it's only for kodi then you won't need any of the crap that usually comes with the other OS'
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    @eeeddr Well I found that it's the problem with Lubuntu. Gonna try Arch...
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    Windows 10
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    @MaxDeepfield Ha-ha... Doesn't even start T_T
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    Xubuntu
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