Might have spare......
Giving Linux a bash
Moderator: Moderators
-
BillyGoat
- Troll Headbutter
- Posts: 8071
- Joined: Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:20 pm
- Location: On top of a mountain, in the long grass.
- Has thanked: 386 times
- Been thanked: 796 times
Re: Giving Linux a bash
What make/model inky?
Might have spare......
Might have spare......
Arguing with a woman is like reading a Software Licence Agreement.
In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
-
tombarry
- Senior Member
- Posts: 120
- Joined: Wed Sep 28, 2011 7:26 pm
- Has thanked: 18 times
- Been thanked: 13 times
Re: Giving Linux a bash
I got my old XP from a computer fair many moons ago -but Amazon or others have cheap legal versions
No Linux distro will be like XP completely but some are close like 'Zorin'
http://www.zorin-os.com/
others and Too much info -
http://distrowatch.com/
No Linux distro will be like XP completely but some are close like 'Zorin'
http://www.zorin-os.com/
others and Too much info -
http://distrowatch.com/
-
Icm76
- Senior Member
- Posts: 475
- Joined: Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:33 pm
- Has thanked: 31 times
- Been thanked: 40 times
Re: Giving Linux a bash
that changes things a bit, those comments I made earlier about the different desktops - forget them except maybe XFCE for which your system only just meets the minimum recommended spec. Xubuntu and similar will run, but might be a bit of a chore. Perhaps LXDE would be a better choice, so Lubuntu or Fedora LXDE would be a good place to start.Inky Pete wrote:Only got half a gig of RAM on the lappy
Suggest also looking into getting a RAM upgrade, shouldn't be too expensive to go to 2GB. A small, basic SSD would probably be a revelation as well.
-
joinerjohn
- Senior Member
- Posts: 2966
- Joined: Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:43 am
- Has thanked: 17 times
- Been thanked: 315 times
Re: Giving Linux a bash
Dunno if any Linux user here use the Ubuntu Forums, but a heads up if you do. The Ubuntu Forums have been hacked and all usernames and passwords have been stolen. If you happen to use the same passwords for other things, you might just wanna change them. 