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Lubuntu.  Regular Ubuntu and Mint are too heavy for your system.

Ended up going with Lubuntu for the large community. Found out that I needed flash player installed to play 720p videos, since Firefox would only play 360p with HTML5 video. Thanks everyone for the help.

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Hi everyone,

I am working on my friend's extremely low end laptop, but he just wants to watch YouTube smoothly at 720p. Which Linux distribution would you recommended?

Note: I have tried Lubuntu but videos only seemed to play at 480p using Firefox.

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1.86 Ghz Single core Celeron M

1 GB DDR2 RAM

Integrated Graphics

Display: 1280*800

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Ubuntu or Mint. IIRC you can optimize for low resource consumption fairly easily on those two. And Ubuntu has a pretty big community, not to mention useful stuff that comes pre-installed

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Linux Mint is a good suggestion. I installed Mint with Cinnamon on a flatmate's laptop with incredibly similar (if not exactly the same) specs. It's a fantastic daily driver for him, and he hasn't had any complaints about YouTube performance. 720p should be achievable with the right configuration, although that's about as far as you'll be able to push it. My flatmate's laptop tends to choke around 720p if anything else is going on, but it maintains otherwise adequate performance if it's being used solely for that purpose. 

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Lubuntu.  Regular Ubuntu and Mint are too heavy for your system.

Ended up going with Lubuntu for the large community. Found out that I needed flash player installed to play 720p videos, since Firefox would only play 360p with HTML5 video. Thanks everyone for the help.

Main PC: i5 4590 @ 3.5 GHz ♦ RX 480 Armor OC ♦ 16 GB DDR3 ♦ GA-Z97-HD3 ♦ 120 GB 840 EVO ♦ 120 GB Intel 520 ♦ W10 Home

Scrapyard PC: Xeon X5460 @ 3.8 GHz ♦ HD 7870 ♦ 8 GB DDR2 ♦ GA-P35-DS3L ♦ 80 GB Intel 320 ♦ 160 GB WD Caviar SE ♦ W10 Home

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:'( 

 

Yet another user that could have been saved by not touching anything with "buntu" in the name.

 

Debian will be waiting for you.

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:'( 

 

Yet another user that could have been saved by not touching anything with "buntu" in the name.

 

Debian will be waiting for you.

Debian is not as user-friendly as a *buntu distro.  It has been a while, but do they still not put the account you create in the sudoers list?

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Debian is /more/ user friendly than Ubuntu and it's shitty derivatives. Their thought has /always/ been that if you set a root password, you don't need sudo, and if you want it, then you'll know how to do it.

 

Unity is an awful piece of shit that needs to die in a very, very deep hole.

--Neil Hanlon

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