Anyone know minimum requirements to run Ubuntu. The main flavor as well as any other you want to share. Also, suggest any other distrio for a 15 year old laptop. Thanks.

  • SteveTech@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    32bit Windows only supports 4GB without PAE enabled, so the manufacturer would/should have said 4GB max. Most 32bit distros ship with PAE enabled so it doesn’t care, however some distros like Ubuntu don’t ship 32bit anymore, but there’s some other good suggestions in the thread.

    • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Oh you are right. I looked it up and the limit is 4GB. That means the laptop has 4GB and not 8 GB.

      So it doesn’t ship with 32bit image? Not even Xubuntu? Hmm…

      Thanks for the heads up. I’ll look up some of the other suggestions here.