linux distribution for old laptop

[cjolley]

Nice.
You installed Lubuntu?

[VJ]

Yes, the PCLinuxOS was not running that nicely (from the live CD), and I could not get Grub configured.

The Lubuntu installation went much better and Grub configured automatically. I found Lubuntu after some googling regarding the PAE issue, where they said to install 12.04 and then update (12.10 dos not support non-PAE CPU). And it seemed to be quite recommended for lower end computers.


Jörg

[Nowhere]

Yup, came here to recommend Lubuntu ...and it turns out you settled on it already :P

How is it so far?

[UtwigMU]

I recently tried OpenSuSE 12.3 on my T60p (3.5GB visible, core duo 2.1, Radeon 1600) and KDE flies compared to Windows 7 which on about 1GB feels equal to WinXP.

I also have Debian VM with 768 1GB running KDE with NX SSH and it's fine. So I'd not bother with LXDE, XFCE and just go KDE.

I haven't tried recent Gnomish stuff recently such as Cinammon, Mate or Unity. Some Gnome based stuff such as Yelp just crashes on Redhat 6.3 (Gnome 2x).

[VJ]

Lubuntu seems to be working fine (no complaints about the computer), and the wifi is very stable. The last part was the main issue: I just needed something that provided a stable wifi and webbrowser...