On 11 December 2013 18:19, Deryk Foote <deryk.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ubuntu is great at a lot of things, but keeping my cinder block of an old > Dell from kicking the proverbial bucket isn't one of them.
Not that I am trying to persuade you not to get yourself a new laptop, but there are other *Buntus (& Linuxes) that work better on older kit. Lubuntu is notably lighter but needs a CPU with the PAE feature. The popular Pentium-M notebook CPU lacks this in its earlier models and can't run anything later than *Buntu 12.04. If you have a late-model Pentium M or later CPU, Lubuntu should work. *N.B.* Lubuntu 12.04 is *not* an LTS release. Lubuntu was too young at that time. But now there is LXLE, the Lubuntu Life Extension, if you have a non-PAE chip and want to run *Buntu. If you want something a bit more basic, Crunchbang works very well. It used to be Ubuntu based but now it's based on Debian. It's even lighter-weight than Lubuntu but a bit more basic. Do remember to turn off display compositing though - this is on by default and really slows down older machines. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
