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

[Loui Chang]

On Wed 30 Dec 2015 13:42 -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.

I'd probably aim for something with fluxbox/openbox. Crushbang, archbang?