Old Netbook - OS suggestions please

Old Netbook - OS suggestions please

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Podie

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276 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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My mother has a Dell Inspiron 1210 Netbook. It's a bit old, and she'll be getting a replacement at Christmas.

It's an Atom processor, 80GB HDD, with 1GB RAM - hardly going to set the world alight.

It had XP, but was sluggish. I've tried Ubuntu 14 and Mint 13 and they're both still a bit slow (35 second boot up!).

I don't expect miracles, but a reasonable boot up, ability to use a web browser and ideally Open Office or Libre office to be able to read the odd Word doc.

Suggestions for a linux distro?

TIA smile

Podie

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46,630 posts

276 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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ZesPak said:
Lubuntu or Mint
Tried Mint and it was a bit slow.... giving Lubuntu a go. Puppy is a bit too light.

Podie

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46,630 posts

276 months

Friday 29th August 2014
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ajprice said:
Can you upgrade the RAM to 2GB? Might help things if you can.
Sadly 1GB is the max.