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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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[–] eruchitanda 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you have more than 4GB of RAM you can install most distros. If not, I'd list my specs, especially the RAM.

Also, IMO, it's less the distro itself. It's more what DE (desktop environment) you choose. The DE is a set of preograms that responsible for the graphical part (like the taskbar, icons, settings).

The distro only help to save you the time/effort changing DE.

Anyways, distros:

x32: Zorin Lite 32bit (little older), Puppy Linux, Bodhi Linux, antiX, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, PeppermintOS, MX Linux.

x64: ZorinOS Lite, Ubuntu MATE, PeppermintOS, Linux Lite.

DEs: LXDE, LXQt, XFCE.

KDE is light-ish (new versions only).

I'd recommend you to stay away from Gnome.

[–] eruchitanda 3 points 2 years ago

Apparently I answered the first half only in my head..

An external site claims that those are the requirements to 22.04:

• 2 GHz dual core processor

• 4 GiB RAM

• 25 GB of hard drive space

• VGA capable of 1024×768 screen resolution