Re: Linux for older laptop
[email protected] (John Conover)
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Michael Eager writes:
>
> I have an older laptop with a 32-bit Pentium M processor. It has been
> running Fedora 10 and I wanted to upgrade to something not quite so
> ancient. Fedora 26 KDE runs, but very slow.
>
> There are lots of recommendations online for distros for old/slow
> laptops. I'm not an Ubuntu fan, but it seems that this is the most
> common base. I'm seeing online recommendations of Lubuntu or LXLE.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation or comments?
>
I have a old Dell Pendium 4 tower which runs Debian, 7 and 8. My
wife's Lenovo S2 Celeron runs Debian 8. All are XFce and/or FVWM.
There is a trend in the industry to end-of-life support for 32 bit
software, (Chrome, etc.,) meaning we get to buy new laptops and
printers.
John
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