Posted February 8 Hello. A few days ago, I found an Acer E5-573 laptop at a great price and bought it and changed its hard drive to an SSD. I wanted to know, apart from Windows, what is the best operating system for this laptop in the opinion of others? Specifications: CPU: Intel Core i3 5005U Ram: 4GB DDR3 GPU: Intel HD5500 2GB SSD: Adata SU650 (256) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 10 minutes ago, AmiraliBeast said: Hello. A few days ago, I found an Acer E5-573 laptop at a great price and bought it and changed its hard drive to an SSD. I wanted to know, apart from Windows, what is the best operating system for this laptop in the opinion of others? Specifications: CPU: Intel Core i3 5005U Ram: 4GB DDR3 GPU: Intel HD5500 2GB SSD: Adata SU650 (256) Well firstly I'd suggest: Router: Intel N100 (pfSense) WiFi6: Zyxel NWA210AX (1.7Gbit peak at 160Mhz) WiFi5: Ubiquiti NanoHD OpenWRT (~500Mbit at 80Mhz) Switches: Netgear MS510TXUP, MS510TXPP, GS110EMX ISPs: Zen Full Fibre 900 (~930Mbit down, 115Mbit up) + Three 5G (~800Mbit down, 115Mbit up) Upgrading Laptop/Desktop CNVIo WiFi 5 cards to PCIe WiFi6e/7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 Depends on what you want to do with it really in some respects? If just general web browsing. media playing, media server etc, then can easily go with linux mint/pop-os/ubuntu for most things. Please quote my post, or put @paddy-stone if you want me to respond to you. Spoiler PCs:- Main PC build https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/2K6Q7X ASUS x53e - i7 2670QM / Sony BD writer x8 / Win 10, Elemetary OS, Ubuntu/ Samsung 830 SSD Lenovo G50 - 8Gb RAM - Samsung 860 Evo 250GB SSD - DVD writer Displays:- Philips 55 OLED 754 model Panasonic 55" 4k TV LG 29" Ultrawide Philips 24" 1080p monitor as backup Storage/NAS/Servers:- ESXI/test build https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/4wyR9G Main Server https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/3Qftyk Backup server - HP Proliant Gen 8 4 bay NAS running FreeNAS ZFS striped 3x3TiB WD reds HP ProLiant G6 Server SE316M1 Twin Hex Core Intel Xeon E5645 2.40GHz 48GB RAM Gaming/Tablets etc:- Xbox One S 500GB + 2TB HDD PS4 Nvidia Shield TV Xiaomi/Pocafone F2 pro 8GB/256GB Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Unused Hardware currently :- 4670K MSI mobo 16GB ram i7 6700K b250 mobo Zotac GTX 1060 6GB Amp! edition Zotac GTX 1050 mini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 Author 10 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said: Well firstly I'd suggest: ngl Really yea i have to do it asap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 Author 1 minute ago, paddy-stone said: Depends on what you want to do with it really in some respects? If just general web browsing. media playing, media server etc, then can easily go with linux mint/pop-os/ubuntu for most things. i just want to use it for edu works for my high school i use ms office and its not in linux ( lib office Dont Support Persian so thats a no no) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 Well you could always try one of these ways with linux https://office-watch.com/2023/microsoft-office-linux-four-ways/ But really if you need windows for certain apps, then stick with windows, although you might find that it's pretty slow, especially adding office on top of windows already bloated use of ram. So you might want to add more ram as 4gb is very low. Please quote my post, or put @paddy-stone if you want me to respond to you. Spoiler PCs:- Main PC build https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/2K6Q7X ASUS x53e - i7 2670QM / Sony BD writer x8 / Win 10, Elemetary OS, Ubuntu/ Samsung 830 SSD Lenovo G50 - 8Gb RAM - Samsung 860 Evo 250GB SSD - DVD writer Displays:- Philips 55 OLED 754 model Panasonic 55" 4k TV LG 29" Ultrawide Philips 24" 1080p monitor as backup Storage/NAS/Servers:- ESXI/test build https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/4wyR9G Main Server https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/3Qftyk Backup server - HP Proliant Gen 8 4 bay NAS running FreeNAS ZFS striped 3x3TiB WD reds HP ProLiant G6 Server SE316M1 Twin Hex Core Intel Xeon E5645 2.40GHz 48GB RAM Gaming/Tablets etc:- Xbox One S 500GB + 2TB HDD PS4 Nvidia Shield TV Xiaomi/Pocafone F2 pro 8GB/256GB Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Unused Hardware currently :- 4670K MSI mobo 16GB ram i7 6700K b250 mobo Zotac GTX 1060 6GB Amp! edition Zotac GTX 1050 mini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 10 minutes ago, AmiraliBeast said: i just want to use it for edu works for my high school i use ms office and its not in linux ( lib office Dont Support Persian so thats a no no) Looks like there's no other os than windows for you. Its not same office program but I'm using obsidian for info and formatting and data formatting all in one connected. I'd use Kubuntu. I'm jank tinkerer if it works then it works. Regardless of compatibility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 If your use case didn't kill it, it's an Acer laptop so it's a toss up whether anything non-Windows will function correctly. lumpy chunks Expand to help Bunny reach world domination (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to (")_(") help him on his way to world domination. -Rakshit Jain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 Get 8gb of ram in there and use 11 or something because you need office. Hope it wasnt more than 50$ because these are quite slow these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 5 minutes ago, jaslion said: Get 8gb of ram in there and use 11 or something because you need office. Hope it wasnt more than 50$ because these are quite slow these days. Office is on 10 as well, and windows 10 is way less bloated and uses way less ram in general. My windows 11 laptop stock uses 6.5 gb of ram idle, and my stock windows 10 uses 3.4 gb (Both have 16gb total ram.) I edit my messages more than not – Probably some dude on the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 2 hours ago, Hellowpplz said: Office is on 10 as well, and windows 10 is way less bloated and uses way less ram in general. False perception on ram usage. Microsoft is following the logical step of empty ram is wasted ram. Basically it fills up the ram with expected files needed, however those files do NOT reserve the ram so the second anything needs memory it frees it up. 10 already does this but to a lesser extent. Back in the olden days ram was kept free because of fear of hard drive access times going nuts, however nowadays flash is the expected storage and thus the new free ram is wasted ram is the better solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 2 hours ago, jaslion said: False perception on ram usage. Microsoft is following the logical step of empty ram is wasted ram. Basically it fills up the ram with expected files needed, however those files do NOT reserve the ram so the second anything needs memory it frees it up. 10 already does this but to a lesser extent. Back in the olden days ram was kept free because of fear of hard drive access times going nuts, however nowadays flash is the expected storage and thus the new free ram is wasted ram is the better solution. I turned off superfetch through registry editor and it did almost nothing. To my understanding, superfetch is what your saying takes up the ram. I edit my messages more than not – Probably some dude on the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 4 hours ago, Hellowpplz said: I turned off superfetch through registry editor and it did almost nothing. To my understanding, superfetch is what your saying takes up the ram. Don't turn it off? You're slowing down your computer. It's a core of the operating system now you won't just turn off this behavior. It's a deep core thing now. Literally all you would be doing by wanting to see free ram is slow your system down. The filled up but not committed ram has NO impact on applications that need ram. The milisecond something needs that ram it dumps the files on it and frees it up for the application. Every single current os is either working like this now or moving towards it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 8 1 minute ago, jaslion said: Don't turn it off? You're slowing down your computer. It's a core of the operating system now you won't just turn off this behavior. It's a deep core thing now. Literally all you would be doing by wanting to see free ram is slow your system down. The filled up but not committed ram has NO impact on applications that need ram. The milisecond something needs that ram it dumps the files on it and frees it up for the application. Every single current os is either working like this now or moving towards it. Noted and I undid it ( honestly it was working fine it just would have a short burst of heating for like 3 seconds when i open something and then go back to normal, something I'm missing here?) I edit my messages more than not – Probably some dude on the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 9 If you already know windows, you can get a superlight distribution of it or make one yourself. It runs very well on low level hardware without a few gigs of bloat sitting on top. I use Ghost Spectre personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 9 why are you telling him to learn a new OS. download windows 10 free download atlas OS from atlasos.net install follow instructions and it should be fairly fast and only use 1.5gb of your ram. this may be your only solution to wanting decent performance and windows OS with 4gb of ram in 2024. I bought a 200 dollar laptop with a celeron and 4gb of ram and installed atlas(easy tweak) and it was snappy and hitchless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 11 On 2/9/2024 at 8:32 PM, jre84 said: why are you telling him to learn a new OS. download windows 10 free download atlas OS from atlasos.net install follow instructions and it should be fairly fast and only use 1.5gb of your ram. this may be your only solution to wanting decent performance and windows OS with 4gb of ram in 2024. I bought a 200 dollar laptop with a celeron and 4gb of ram and installed atlas(easy tweak) and it was snappy and hitchless Eh I've rather use Chris titus tech tool https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ He's building debloat windows iso file for free and opensource. Also OP says Quote I wanted to know, apart from Windows, what is the best operating system for this laptop in the opinion of others? Smh man didn't read op's post. I'm jank tinkerer if it works then it works. Regardless of compatibility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 11 mis read.. yeah i checked out chris titus tool a few times. i get slower benchmark numbers and performance as well as higher process count Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 12 If you are used to Windows try Linux Mint (Cinammon), if you are used to Mac OS try Fedora Workstation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 10 windows 10/11 will work very poorly on this hardware. I would recommend that you test the following systems on this hardware. mageia -- https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/ PCLinuxOS -- https://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=180 FreeBSD -- https://www.freebsd.org/ Alpine Linux -- https://www.alpinelinux.org/ ROSA Fresh Desktop -- https://rosa.ru/rosa-linux-download-links/ Gentoo -- https://www.gentoo.org/ OpenMandriva -- https://www.openmandriva.org Clear Linux -- https://www.clearlinux.org/downloads.html EndeavourOS -- https://endeavouros.com OpenBSD -- https://www.openbsd.org/ ALT Linux -- https://en.altlinux.org/Regular openSUSE -- https://www.opensuse.org Void Linux -- https://voidlinux.org/download/ GhostBSD -- https://ghostbsd.org/ Artix Linux -- https://artixlinux.org/download.php For your MS Office tasks you can use the free online version of MS Office. Or for example OnlyOffice, WPS Office, Gnumeric, EMACS Org Mode or LaTeX, which are all equal to or better than MS Office. OS: FreeBSD 13.3 WM: bspwm Hardware: Intel 12600KF -- Kingston dual-channel CL36 @6200 -- Sapphire RX 7600 -- BIOSTAR B760MZ-E PRO -- Antec P6 -- Xilence XP550 -- ARCTIC i35 -- EVO 850 500GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 10 On 2/8/2024 at 7:04 AM, AmiraliBeast said: i just want to use it for edu works for my high school i use ms office and its not in linux ( lib office Dont Support Persian so thats a no no) if your school is anything like mine linux is fine as long as your using the online version of MS office, I usually use libreoffice then copy and paste it in to word for spell check and to turn it in, also use a chromium browser like firefox for best compatibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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