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Ubuntu minimum requirements (self.linux)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by dis_honestfamiliar to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Generally, almost any linux will do

That really depends on the hardware. A year or two ago a friend asked me to install Linux on his ancient laptop. If I remember correctly it has x86 BIOS and CPU, or a x86 bios and x86_64 CPU.

In any case, it had a hardware combination that made it next to impossible to find a distro that supports it. I tried a few Debian derivatives, arch, void, maybe fedora, and some distros I found in top 10 distro lists for old PCs. The only one that I got to both install and boot was Bodhi Linux. Never heard about it before or after, and it gave up on updating like half a year later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

sounds like some of those asus transformer devices :D

in that case your problem isn't so much finding a distro to support that PC, but getting ANY distro to boot on it. It's possible and takes pretty much the same steps for any distro - it's just a horrible task for all cases.

[–] Sir_mittens2 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

did it have 32bit cpu by any chance?. since linux stopped supporting it a while ago. if its 64 bit its fine i think

[–] Narishma 1 points 2 years ago

Linux hasn't stopped supporting 32-bit. I'm currently running Debian on an old 32-bit netbook just fine.