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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    1 year ago

    anyone wondering on update on this. So I install Ubuntu. As you guys know, it is 64 bit only. I was 50/50 expecting it to fail. It installed fine. I checked the specs. Intel i3 2.2GHz 8GB and 64 bit architecture. I just couldn’t remember if it was Intel 64 bit or not. Anyway, it installed fine.

    I installed an ssd. It wasn’t a slow machine, but it wasn’t anything impressive. Also, the internal fan is always running a little bit fast. It’s not a quiet machine is what I’m saying.

    However, I did not like that I was forced to snapd. I tried to remove it, and played with Ubuntu a bit. After an hour so I came back to re-read comments on other suggested distros. In looked up install arch on YouTube. I saw that I could use archinstall so I did. Currently looking at what desktop environment I should use.

    I’m not a Linux noob. I just didn’t know the Ubuntu requirements. And also, I’ve been comfortably been using Fedora in my main desktop. I just wanted something different on this old old laptop. Thank you all for the comments. And specially for the recommendation give.