ifiokambrose@piefed.social to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-216 hours agoHandled a ThinkPad today. What distro should I go with? Ubuntu? Arch?message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up137arrow-down1message-squareHandled a ThinkPad today. What distro should I go with? Ubuntu? Arch?ifiokambrose@piefed.social to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-216 hours agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 hours agoIf you don’t upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don’t need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.
If you don’t upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don’t need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.