Anyone know minimum requirements to run Ubuntu. The main flavor as well as any other you want to share. Also, suggest any other distrio for a 15 year old laptop. Thanks.

  • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 years ago

    I dropped my laptop (couple years old) and it is basically unusable. So, I’m looking to revive my really old laptop (15 year old).

    For those asking specs. I think the hard drive has issues so I’m going to replace with ssd. The laptop came with windows 7 32 bit. So, because it came with windows 7 32 bit, the manufacturer says that it has max memory of 8GB. I know I putted 2X4GB sticks in it last time I used it which was 4 years ago. I’m not sure if the chipset supports 64 bit. Also, if I remember correctly, CPU was like first gen i3 with 1.8 or maybe just maybe 2.Something GHz and with like 3GHz turbo.

    Thanks everyone. I might try Ubuntu, but most likely, I’ll go with Lubuntu, Xubuntu or Ubuntu with Mate. And, I will use it for some light coding and web surfing.

    • SteveTech@programming.dev
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      2 years ago

      32bit Windows only supports 4GB without PAE enabled, so the manufacturer would/should have said 4GB max. Most 32bit distros ship with PAE enabled so it doesn’t care, however some distros like Ubuntu don’t ship 32bit anymore, but there’s some other good suggestions in the thread.

      • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.worldOP
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        2 years ago

        Oh you are right. I looked it up and the limit is 4GB. That means the laptop has 4GB and not 8 GB.

        So it doesn’t ship with 32bit image? Not even Xubuntu? Hmm…

        Thanks for the heads up. I’ll look up some of the other suggestions here.