Mint or Ubuntu

[SIGSEGV]

This is for my aunt, all she uses her computer for is basically just the internet. It's slow as hell so I want to install Linux to try and squeeze a little more speed out of her PC. I will still be keeping her Windows partition.

[alexgscraft]

Mint is easier if she is just web browsing.

[SkywardKkalox]

Mint is like Windows, so she won't have that hard of a time to adjust.

[Tek_Addict]

Just comes down to personal preference at the end of the day, i personally would stick to mint nice and easy to use.

[SIGSEGV]

Looks like I'm going for Mint, thanks for the help!

[Tarzan]

Mint of course. Or Elementary OS, it's so easy to use, and fast.

[Nineshadow]

If it's a really old system, then use lubuntu.

If it's old, but not that old, use xubuntu.

 

I suggest lubuntu.It looks alot like Windows as well.

[Aircooled Brain]

Mint since its like windows.

[jayctech]

I'd go with Lubuntu tbh.

 

 

Or Ubuntu Mate.

[Guest]

I would go with Mint for her as it looks more like windows. If you want to make it as painless as possible you could try Zorin - it's designed to mimic windows and make it easy for windows users to switch to linux.

My personal favourite is Elementary OS- It looks good, runs fast and was happy to run on a 1.5ghz single core celeron M (half a meg of cache), half a gig of DDR Ram  and no video drivers (my laptop from 2003 that I still use, it's been upgraded a bit now and I am typing it out on it, still with elementary os and no video drivers).

[SIGSEGV]

If it's a really old system, then use lubuntu.

If it's old, but not that old, use xubuntu.

 

I suggest lubuntu.It looks alot like Windows as well.

Well it's too late now, I'm already downloading Mint, and I'm on 1 megabit connection so I'm not going to restart the download now lol (I'm 426mb in and it's been downloading for about 2 hours lol)

[colonel_mortis]

Moved to Operating Systems and Software.

[Guest]

I prefer Mint over Ubuntu for daily usage.

[GodSpoon]

Mint is a good chunk simpler than ubuntu, either would get the job done though

[Satlen]

Yeah, I would recommend mint if she is used to windows or ubuntu if she is used to mac.

[JNF_Paste]

I switched to mint because my pc is only capable for web browsing lol.Go with cinnamon which I believe is 17.1.Ubuntu is also good but I hate the amazon integration.