Free Lightweight Operating Systems

[AlanAlan]

I have a old computer that is on windows 10 running on a ssd it has 1ghz processor, 4GB Ram and it is very laggy and slow. Most of the time I use Chrome and watching videos online. I want to repurpose this pc and make it working for watching videos online. Is there any that are easy and simple to use?

[zMeul]

Lubuntu: http://lubuntu.me/

[DrM]

linux with xfce. either xubuntu or xfce mint

[pagani123]

pretty much all the linux distros are lightweight 

[ThinkWithPortals]

12 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

I have a old computer that is on windows 10 running on a ssd it has 1ghz processor, 4GB Ram and it is very laggy and slow. Most of the time I use Chrome and watching videos online. I want to repurpose this pc and make it working for watching videos online. Is there any that are easy and simple to use?

Xubuntu, Lubuntu or Linux Mint would all do just fine.

[Bananasplit_00]

Linux, something like Mint should be good

[AlanAlan]

5 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Linux, something like Mint should be good

 

10 minutes ago, Maybach123 said:

pretty much all the linux distros are lightweight 

 

5 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Xubuntu, Lubuntu or Linux Mint would all do just fine.

 

11 minutes ago, zMeul said:

Lubuntu: http://lubuntu.me/

What is the lightest?

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, AlanAlan said:

What is the lightest?

Lubuntu

[TheGuyWhoCodes]

1 minute ago, AlanAlan said:

 

 

 

What is the lightest?

I've had great success with Lubuntu

[AlanAlan]

1 minute ago, zMeul said:

Lubuntu

What about elemenatry os?

[ThinkWithPortals]

3 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

 

 

 

What is the lightest?

Either Lubuntu or Xubuntu.

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, AlanAlan said:

What about elemenatry os?

that doesn't seem free

[AlanAlan]

1 minute ago, TheGuyWhoCodes said:

I've had great success with Lubuntu

 

2 minutes ago, zMeul said:

Lubuntu

Will it have chrome?

[TheGuyWhoCodes]

1 minute ago, AlanAlan said:

 

Will it have chrome?

Yes

 

sudo wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

[AlanAlan]

which one comes with chrome preinstalled

[zMeul]

2 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

which one comes with chrome preinstalled

no even winows has Chrome preinstalled

how hard is it to use the included browser and go to https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/chrome/browser/

[Hamako]

On 5/15/2016 at 9:07 PM, AlanAlan said:

What about elemenatry os?

Very heavy distro.

 

Here is a list of lightweight distros:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Linux_distribution

 

Try all of them and choose the one you prefer the most.

[Ben Potter]

I would suggest CloudReady and turn it into a "chromebook"

 

https://mycloset.tech/2016/05/15/installing-chromiumos-on-an-old-laptoppc-with-cloudready/

 

http://www.neverware.com/

 

It will have chrome preinstalled haha

[jimistephen]

What about PuppyLinux? It's based on Ubuntu now but it's so small it can all run in ram.

[Sintezza]

On 15-5-2016 at 10:07 PM, AlanAlan said:

What about elemenatry os?

 

On 15-5-2016 at 10:09 PM, zMeul said:

that doesn't seem free

 

Elementary OS exaly is free just like most other Linux distro´s.

But Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu 14.04LTS so its basicly realy old.

So its not worth looking at it, as long as they dont come with a new version based on LTS16.04

Next to that, its also not that lightweight either.

 

Lubuntu, Puppy, LXLE etc are lightweight distro´s.

Most distro´s with LXDE or LXQT desktops are pretty lightweight.

 

[Hamako]

I recently tried Manjaro LXQT and was quite impressed. Comes with Chrome pre-installed.

[Fetzie]

My 8 year old netbook (1.6GHz single core atom, 1GB RAM) runs Mint faster than it ran XP.