Sitting here at 2:52 am dicking around with a shitty laptop that my brother found...

Sitting here at 2:52 am dicking around with a shitty laptop that my brother found. Trying to find the best Linux OS to run on it...so far they have either been too slow or a bitch to configure. I don't even know why I'm doing this.

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Bumping because I'm staring at an install screen.

>Lubuntu
>Absolute Linux
>Tinycore

enjoy your master race OS

I'm trying Absolute Linux right now, Lubuntu ran like shit and Tinycore looked like shit. (Thanks though)

What OS did it have on it? because if lubuntu was slow, it must be a fucking dinosaur.

Wish I could dual boot with my main system, I'd probably go for Mint. My current bios even after updating doesn't have any option for legacy support though and for some reason mint freezes.

It didn't have one I had to put a 320 gig one in that I had laying around.

Absolute is taking forever to copy to the flash drive...fuck.

>lubuntu ran like shit

how old is the laptop? give us some specs.

ubuntu will run on it

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You know that doesn't seem SUPER terrible and it ran 7 so...I don't know why it run like shit (everything was choppy as fuck)

fucking love that shot 10/10

Debian is the only way.

I did not know that :)

so ram is fine, likely bottlenecks are going to be HDD and cpu. dual-core 1.4ghz is never going to be an amazing experience browsing the web but basic shit should work.

I'd just put debian stable on there personally. got a 1.6ghz single-core with 2gb of ram running here, full gnome desktop and it's chugging along fine.

>install debian
>optionally install xfce/lxde instead of gnome desktop if the interface is slow

So the Absolute is going well so far..I have hope ...kinda.

I tried running youtube and it kept skipping frames not to mention it lagged pretty bad just moving around windows and such.

amd graphics, not the best supported in linux and kinda shitty even then. odds are it's not using any hardware offload so the CPU is choking trying to do it all.

You can probably grab the proprietary drivers. on debian it'd be 'apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-video-ati' but never tried it on a slackware based distro.

You must be the biggest debian fan ever (if I'm talking to the same person). Well...I'm currently trying a slackware based distro so I'll let you know.

It's just the one that works for me. Different distros for different folk, debian has a blend of usually working and staying the fuck out of my way that appeals to me.

slackware is pretty solid, I just have minimal experience trying to use it as a desktop so cant offer much help

I completely get that, and honestly while I appreciate any comments or help I'm not asking for help. I'm just looking for conversation.