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Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago

Handled a ThinkPad today. What distro should I go with? Ubuntu? Arch?

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Handled a ThinkPad today. What distro should I go with? Ubuntu? Arch?

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Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago

Here’s the PC:

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If you don’t upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don’t need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.

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