Hi Deborah,
I settled on Lubuntu quite a while ago as my favorite 'Buntu. But I have a
few laptops/notebooks of various makes and vintages in the house being
used by wife and children, and for them I have pretty well standardised on
LXLE, which is in turn a Lubuntu derivative offering a somewhat-XP like
interface (I nearly said "user experience", but it's much nicer) as an
option. It is aimed particularly at old, low-spec hardware.
It tends to be a little more frugal with resources than Lubuntu itself,
and just seems a little slicker and easier for the
not-too-computer-literate to use without bugging me for help. Check
Distrowatch and its recent Weekly magazine.
The line-up of laptops includes a couple of Thinkpads, a Mecer, a
Fujitsu-Siemens, the Lenovo G585 on which I write this, and I had a Compaq
which was stolen from my car. The only machine I have where there are any
problems with LXLE is an Acer Aspire One which uses an Intel Atom 2520 CPU
and 2GB RAM. There is a problem with the screen size being reported in a
way that confuses the driver system resulting in only the top half of the
screen being used after login - VGA is fine. Hopefully I'll find a
solution for the LXLE driver problem and get everybody on te same page.
(Lubuntu itself has a similar problem.)
On this machine I therefore use the CrunchBang distro, descended from
Debian, and very minimalist. On another machine I was able to install the
Lubuntu interface on top of CB, but decided I preferred the minimalist
version and haven't bothered to try it again on the Acer, but it could be
worth the try.
Just my 2-bits' worth.
Basil
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:07:48 +0200, Deborah P <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
I have a Toshiba NB205 Netbook with an Intel Atom N280 CPU and 2 GB RAM.
Since the Windows XP that was pre-installed >is no longer supported I
wanted to try an open source OS and Lubuntu was recommended.
I've looked at some of the forum posts and still can't determine which
version of Lubuntu is best suited for my >netbook. Can you please tell
me which version I need?
Thanks,
Deborah
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