#Lightweight linux distro non pae Pc#
#Lightweight linux distro non pae windows 7#

I remember I had to use exactly LM 13 because its older kernel worked fine with that CPU (in contrast to LM 17.x). As long as Linux Mint 13 and the package base of Ubuntu 12.04 are not supported any more, it will not only be risky to browse, but some websites, for example YouTube, will reject playing media content due to outdated browsers.

What is expected to be done there is mostly browsing the internet, listening to music and simple data transfer from / to USB memory sticks. People thought of throwing it away several years ago (after WinXP had completely been messed up there, rejecting to boot). I do not remember its specs now, I happen to be next to that machine very seldom. Some people I know have a really old piece of hardware, a desktop that has an ancient AMD CPU and about 256 MB RAM. It can't quite handle CInnamon, but XFCE works great, as long as you don't ask too much from it.

#Lightweight linux distro non pae Pc#

My secondary PC is an 11 year old Dell desktop, with a Pentium D, 4GB ram and an ATI X600. I run Mint Cinnamon on it, and it runs pretty smooth with visual effects enabled. My daily use PC is a 9 year old Dell laptop with a C2D 2.53ghz, 6GB ram and an Nvidia Quadro 770m. OLD hardware need to be ones before EFI-supported BIOS, or ones under 32-bit processors, or ones with PPC or Arm processors (though 64-bit). Majpooper wrote:I guess it depends on how one defines 'old' hardware. Now if you are seriously trying to revive something that is 10 or more years old - I am not sure as I haven't any experience installing LM on anything quite that old - close maybe 8 or 9 years old, a MAC Mini and an old HP desktop but both running lubuntu. That cohort I have found runs LM Cinnamon OK. My point being this to me is 'old' hardware ~ 6 or 7 years old. His first comment was it was 'much' faster than Windows.

Mind you, I did this for a retired cop that only uses this laptop when he travels for general use i.e.

#Lightweight linux distro non pae windows 7#

Cinnamon runs fine and certainly better than Windows 7 was running on it. I mean I did not bench test them so it was just my impression from trying them out. I tested it with XFCE and even lubuntu which ran a little faster I suppose than Cinnamon but not significantly so. It is running a dual core AMD 1.6 Mz CPU and 2G of RAM and obviously integrated graphics. I just installed LM 17.3 Cinnamon on an old 15' HP laptop (net book ?). I guess it depends on how one defines 'old' hardware.