Best Linux distro for dying laptop.

[Aidanlockett1]

Hey, I have a mid 2010 or so mac laptop with core 2 duo at 1.2 or so gigahertz, 2 gbs of ram, and a crappy hard disk. The battery is dying and Ill prolly buy a new battery and drive before anything else. I am using for school and windows/macos wont work because of how old the hardware is. What linux distro would work well for this kinda laptop? Im currently using Lubuntu

[Daniel Z.]

Well lubuntu should be fine.

[Aidanlockett1]

Just now, Daniel Z. said:

Well lubuntu should be fine.

any other suggestions? I like it so far

[Daniel Z.]

39 minutes ago, Aidanlockett1 said:

any other suggestions? I like it so far

It has good support and its light so I like it

[TurbulentWinds]

Arch and Debain are pretty lightweight.

[alancosta.unit]

Arch if you know the basics of linux since you have to install everything manually, manjado otherwise.

[YamiYukiSenpai]

Any distro with LXDE/LXQt should run perfectly fine, and because you already have Lubuntu, you should be good to go.

 

You can try the Xfce desktop (i.e. Xubuntu) on it if you're willing to push it, or even MATE (i.e. Ubuntu MATE) if you're willing to push it further.  You can install these desktop environments on your Lubuntu distro and switch from login.

 

I have Lubuntu Next 18.04 beta (Lubuntu with LXQt) on my Thinkpad T42 running fine (aside from slow boot up speed), so I figured you should be able to run Xfce or MATE just fine.

[YellowJersey]

I recommend Mint. I have a 9 year old Lenovo T500 that it runs beautifully on. The poor ol' girl stopped being able to run Windows 7 in 2015, which is when I started researching Linux distros. Easy to install, runs great, works "out of the box" without much tinkering required, and has really given new life to my machine. I never thought I could be excited by an OS.

[Mutoh]

You should be able to get Sierra on a Unibody Mac. It takes a bit of messing around but its possible. My 2008 MB runs Sierra fine.

 

Windows 10 should work alright too. I dual boot OSX and w10 on mine.

 

That being said, seems like youre liking lubuntu.