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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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[–] Sir_mittens2 0 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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