| Terry49 | I'm new to linux and would like to install it on an old PC laptop (Toshiba Portege M200). It's 32-bit, and has pretty low specs (Intel Pentium M, 1GB ram). Can someone point me to the best release? | 22:10 |
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| genii | Terry49: There are no more supported 32bit *buntu distributions. Your best bet is probably Debian, and then LXDE/LXQt | 22:14 |
| Terry49 | genii Thanks, does it matter if they are not supported? | 22:15 |
| Terry49 | I found this: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/18.04/release/ | 22:15 |
| genii | Yes, because no more updates...critically security updates. Also the mirrors are frozen in archives | 22:16 |
| Terry49 | Ah, ok | 22:16 |
| genii | !18.04 | 22:16 |
| ubottu | Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) was the 28th release of Ubuntu. Support ended May 31st, 2023. See !eol, !pro and https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2023-May/000290.html | 22:16 |
| genii | EOL | 22:16 |
| Terry49 | genii Of the ones mentioned, which would have best drivers for old hardware? | 22:16 |
| Terry49 | The M200 was this weird tablet/laptop and has a stylus... | 22:17 |
| genii | *buntu is a Debian derivative, they share a common driver base | 22:17 |
| Terry49 | I tried AntiX, which apparently would works according to this post (https://munk.org/typecast/2019/05/01/antix-17-4-1-i386-on-sweet-16-toshiba-portege-m200/), but could not get it to install. | 22:18 |
| Terry49 | Ok, so Debian it is, then :) | 22:18 |
| genii | There are also other distributions for lower end older machines like Damn Small Linux, but with Debian you will get a wider selection of applications and larger user base when seeking support | 22:20 |
| Terry49 | genii Ok, looking into Debian. | 22:21 |
| genii | Hardware wise, the single most effective thing you could do to also increase the performance is to swap out any platter based drive with an SSD | 22:24 |
| Terry49 | Is that possible with the chipset/ports on this old laptop? It only has IDE afaik | 22:25 |
| genii | IDE/PATA SSDs exist :) | 22:26 |
| Terry49 | Hmm, wow. | 22:26 |
| genii | For instance I have one of these in an ancient old Toshiba Satellite https://www.amazon.ca/128GB-KingSpec-2-5-inch-SM2236-Controller/dp/B0091T4ZWU | 22:28 |
| Terry49 | genii That's pretty cool. I imagine that is a big boost to access times. The old Hitachi 60GB mechanical is slow :P | 22:29 |
| Terry49 | Loading nicely... Thanks for this advice genii. I really was dreading using WindowsXP SP3 Tablet OS to use the machine. We'll see if I can get the stylus to work. | 22:34 |
| genii | Excellent | 22:35 |
| genii | Terry49: There is also #linux channel for general Linux support on Libera IRC, Debian has it's home channel on OFTC IRC network but there is also a #debian channel here on Libera | 22:37 |
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