I have an old Subnotebook (at least 10 years old I think) which runs Windows 7 atm. I would like to run Linux on it. I‘m a Linux noob, but would like to try and learn a few things. Any recommendations?

  • mrXYZ@mas.to
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    1 year ago

    @Dirk @Fungus
    Arch + aur is a little bit too much in my opinion. Old PC = old slow hardware. Some of aur pacages are basicly compile instructions. Also you won’t benefit as much from rolling release.
    For GUI stay away from GNOME as it is resource hungry. KDE claimes to be a lot better but honestly it is still a very polished flashy expirence out of the box.
    Learn using KDE, atempt to replicate using window manager like AwesomeWM.
    You will “waste” resource only for what is a mass have for You.

    • @hachyderm.io
      1·
      1 year ago

      @mrXYZ
      Unless you’re doing something very unusual, you’re not going to end up with many AUR packages. I’ve run Arch on SBCs without much trouble.

      There are severely steps in between Gnome/KDE and Awesome. XFCE and Enlightenment are more user friendly options that are still quite lightweight.
      @Dirk @Fungus