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Linux for a Turion X2 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Dug my old laptop out (HP G60, Turion X2 64) - and installed Mint XFCE on it - so far it's useable, but of course still slow. I'm amazed it works as well as it does (3 GB ram and an SSD). The CPU usage is at 100% a lot of the time.

My question is, what distros do you guys like for this age of laptop? This is a spare so more for messing around. I was thinking of trying Arch as I've hard it's somewhat lightweight but not sure. I've really only used Debian since I've been on linux.

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago

Like some of the other comments, if you really need a DE then maybe give XFCE or LXQt a try. The distro itself won't matter too much in your scenario.

I do have an old laptop that has run Debian/Ubuntu + Gnome fine, not at all fast but usable for my needs. Mines has 4 GB RAM, get the feeling that going under 4 GB may be a bit much.

Otherwise Linux is perfectly usable without a DE if you're willing to stick to the terminal for all your usage.

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