ifiokambrose@piefed.social to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-225 days agoHandled a ThinkPad today. What distro should I go with? Ubuntu? Arch?message-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up161arrow-down1message-squareHandled a ThinkPad today. What distro should I go with? Ubuntu? Arch?ifiokambrose@piefed.social to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-225 days agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·24 days 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.