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.

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    1 year ago

    It would be useful to share hardware specs so that we can really recommend something for it. You will get best results by trying out multiple distributions and get a feel. Generally, almost any linux will do, problem will be browser so saving as much ram for it would be useful.

    First suggestion: get some used SSD for it if it does not have it already (even 64GB will do), second get more RAM if possible.

    Depending on the user I would first go with Linux Mint XFCE, that is lightest easy to use distro I have found.

    For someone more advanced/less expectations Crunchbang++ is very light.