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Akira Shimazu
By Akira Shimazu
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i have old laptop that i use for emergency which has Atom N50 and 2GB of DDR3 memory with 320GB HDD. what os should i use in this system? at least it runs web browser.

  Spec: Macbook Air 2017    

ProcessorPU: ii5 (I5-5350U |    

| RAM: 8GB LPDDR3 |

| Storage: 128GB SSD | 

 | GPU: Intel HD 6000 |

| Audio: JBL 450BT Wireless Headset |

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Lubuntu

Peppermint

ChromeOS (Cloudready)

MX Linux

Linux Lite

Xubuntu

Puppy Linux (kidding/not kidding)

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Basically any distro with XFCE, MATE or LXDE should work fine.

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You should stay away from *buntu - those are heavy on your resources.

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2 hours ago, Dat Guy said:

You should stay away from *buntu - those are heavy on your resources.

It's usually more about the desktop environment than the base OS. Lubuntu will run on damn near anything courtesy of its LXDE DE, but good luck getting any GNOME desktop environment running happily, smoothly and comfortably on less than 8 GB of RAM.

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Technically true, but Ubuntu's non-GUI base system is still rather expensive. Maybe Void would be an alternative.

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so what then? just say one OS and i download it .

  Spec: Macbook Air 2017    

ProcessorPU: ii5 (I5-5350U |    

| RAM: 8GB LPDDR3 |

| Storage: 128GB SSD | 

 | GPU: Intel HD 6000 |

| Audio: JBL 450BT Wireless Headset |

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Lubuntu

Peppermint

MX Linux

Linux Lite

Xubuntu

Puppy Linux 

Bodhi Linux

Ubuntu MATE

Arch Linux + Lightweight Desktop environment

LXLE

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On 3/2/2020 at 10:03 AM, Wolfycapt said:

so what then? just say one OS and i download it .

If you work closely with Google Drive then ChromeOs (Cloudready) would suit you more. 

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Clear Linux seems to be an interesting high performance distro.  It is Intel's own distro with binaries compiled with a very specific set of compiler optimizations, and thus very specific CPU instruction set requirements.  It performs very strongly in benchmarks I have seen.  More efficient binaries should mean more efficient use of the CPU you have.  Might be worth a look.

 

Otherwise my go-to lightweight distro is Bodhi Linux.  It features it's own Moksha desktop which is very efficient, yet is very modern, and is without any compromises.  All of my laptop stuff worked out of the box.

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