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

[Daniel Villarreal]

You might try Linux Mint MATE and/or Xfce (latest is in beta).

I'd recommend you read this blog entry for Linux Mint, in regards to 
MATE version (for juxtaposition with Cinnamon version).
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2038

regards,
Daniel Villarreal
http://www.youcanlinux.org/

If you're wanting to learn newer ways of doing things, you'd probably 
going to want to look at CentOS 7, recently updated, and/or Fedora.

You might want to look at some different *BSD variants, also. I like the 
lack of bloat in OpenBSD.


On 12/30/15 13:42, 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.