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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] 3 points 2 years ago

A lot of it will come down to what you're running for a desktop environment and software. I've got an old laptop with a duel core 2Ghz (x86_64) processor and 2G of ram, and running Debian with XFCE it can do basic web browsing, video playing/streaming up to ~720p, game emulators, etc with the same snappiness as a normal computer.

Ubuntu is a bit bulkier than Debian and some other Debian derivatives, so if you go with Ubuntu you'd probably make sure to go with a more lightweight 'flavor' with a non-gnome desktop and remove anything you don't need.

Alpine and Puppy Linux are two other super lightweight distros that also might be worth checking out (albeit Alpine being a little more advanced and Puppy Linux being a bit limited).