What distro for a 2 core intel P9300 laptop

[Salacious B Crum]

Any takers on the best all round distro for an old Dell laptop with a duo core P9300 would really like this for a plex player not a server and only 1 stream but it looks like it might be just too old?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Lubuntu would be my first go-to.

[jpenguin]

Tell us your GPU & RAM.  All Linux distributions are better on old hardware than Windows, it's mainly the DE

 

 

[KarathKasun]

Crunchbang+

 

8 minutes ago, jpenguin said:

Tell us your GPU & RAM.  All Linux distributions are better on old hardware than Windows, it's mainly the DE

 

 

No.  Stock Ubuntu runs like crap on old hardware.  Any distro using LXDE or something similar would be ideal. 

 

CB or Debian using the base install + LXDE use less than 200mb of RAM at the desktop.

[jpenguin]

21 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Crunchbang+

 

No.  Stock Ubuntu runs like crap on old hardware.  Any distro using LXDE or something similar would be ideal. 

 

CB or Debian using the base install + LXDE use less than 200mb of RAM at the desktop.

You just made my point; it is the DE not the distro

[KarathKasun]

Just now, jpenguin said:

You just made my point; it is the DE not the distro

For many people, the distro = Linux + stock DE.

 

This is why Lubuntu and Kubuntu are a thing.

[jpenguin]

Ya, that is how most peoople see it.  You can install KDE or LXDE on ubuntu though

[KarathKasun]

2 minutes ago, jpenguin said:

Ya, that is how most peoople see it.  You can install KDE or LXDE on ubuntu though

In which case you save yourself hassle by just installing Lubuntu or Kubuntu instead.

 

If you are going to do manual package selection in a Debian derivative, you are better off just installing Debian IMHO.

[Salacious B Crum]

51 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Lubuntu would be my first go-to.

 

19 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

For many people, the distro = Linux + stock DE.

 

This is why Lubuntu and Kubuntu are a thing.

 

10 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

In which case you save yourself hassle by just installing Lubuntu or Kubuntu instead.

 

If you are going to do manual package selection in a Debian derivative, you are better off just installing Debian IMHO.

Thanks for the input guys the display adapter is a mobile intel 4 series express chipset and it has 2gigs of ram ands its a 32 bit os windows vista business I would put more ram if I new it would perform better for plex

[Mira Yurizaki]

If you don't care about having a GUI, you could install Ubuntu Server or something similar. If all it's doing is serving files, you likely don't need a fancy GUI to service the server, but it'll probably take more elbow grease to work with.

 

Then again you could just install any distro and have it not run the DE at all.

[Guest]

On 10/28/2018 at 9:54 PM, mrbilky said:

Any takers on the best all round distro for an old Dell laptop with a duo core P9300 would really like this for a plex player not a server and only 1 stream but it looks like it might be just too old?

Core 2 Duos are pretty good even today, the first thing you must look for is the iGPU, it is a GM4500 HD? 

Wouldn't suggest ubuntu just because it will take 1 gig of ram, maybe Xubuntu or Kubuntu 18.10

Edited November 2, 2018 by Guest

[jpenguin]

My backup computer has an E8400 Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, & a 659ti.  It's never stuttered on any Linux distribution.  The GPU matters a lot more that the CPU.  I suggest opensuse, mageio or fedora