the classic story we've heard a million times >have an old laptop >want to breath new life into it by installing a linux distro >ubuntu is really fat
I want to put a new, lightweight linux os onto my decrepit laptop but there are too many options, I'm like a kid in a candy store. I've kinda narrowed it down to lubuntu, linux lite or debian but I can't choose. what do you guys recommend? I'm basically just going to be using it for looking at pictures, some basic photo editing with gimp, maybe some writing, and simple internet / google docs stuff. nothing fancy im not sure if this is the type of thread that should get canned to /wsr/ but whatever. I want the big brains to school me
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux version, is in fact, GNU/Linux version, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux version. Linux version is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system.If you read this you lost the game. Reply or your mom will die in her sleep: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I. have FUCKING heard it already how much performance will xubuntu give me over ubuntu?
Gabriel Smith
you should start with listing your laptop specs. then you can ask for advice from there. in addition, since the ones you listed are quite easy to install, you could just test them all out within a matter of less than 2 hours.
Kevin Jenkins
Manjaro i3. Works well on my mother's trash 10 y/o laptop with some shitty 1.3ghz single core and processor.
