[GTALUG] distro for old machine and non-expert users

[William Park]

Well, usual answers would be
    - Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu-Mate (in that order)
    - same on Debian side

Something off left field, try "AntiX".  It's Debian + XFCE, so you can
do "apt-get" all you want.  I couldn't find similar smallish distro on
the right field...
-- 
William

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 01:42:45PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Machine: old P4 with 1G of RAM an 80G HDD.
> Was running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
> 
> I'm trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but Unity is a real pig with the 
> ancient Intel 865G graphics.  Any desktop that tries to use 3D 
> acceleration will be awful.  I strongly suspect Fedora's 
> Gnome would be bad.
> 
> Is there an easy choice?  Would Mint work?
> 
> The system should be self-explanatory to casual former Windows users.
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