Older Computer/Laptop go with Lubuntu 14.04 ,it’s like Windows XP ,install it and use it ,Da Da
Debian Testing is working out fine for me... home use.
The base system is pretty solid (no crashes) and the apps are updated very frequently.
I use the XFCE desktop—simple, fast.
For someone that doesn’t want to use his old XP computer and won’t be using it, but does want to get on it only to google for computer answers, and to download a free security program to repair his real computer, what is the simplest, easiest OS for that?
I put Cinnamon on one, and don’t like it, is there a simpler, easier to understand OS that is still secure enough for this simple task?
Distrowatch dot com has Mint over ubuntu (Mint first place) by a substantial margin.
Mint escapes mention here, though I understand it is a variant of Ubuntu, it is a rather distinct fork.
Anybody running a linux version on a chromebook?
Though my company is a Windows shop, we’ve got some Linux, mostly desktops, but a few servers, mostly running Zimbra as our corporate mail system. We used to be standardized on SLES, but have since moved to Centos for the desktops (I had nothing to do with it, and don’t work on them), and we’re now moving to Ubuntu on VMs for the ZImbra. I’ve liked Ubuntu for a while now.
But I haven’t really done any SERIOUS *IX since about 1989, so I’m really rusty at it, and google is my friend.
Mark
I’ve used Suse since version 8.0, mandrake before that.
Still dual boot, but usually go months without using windows.
Played with debian for awhile just for fun, but that really didn’t see the need for it.
Guess I’ll just stick to opensuse with KDE desktop because I am old and really not too interested in learning anything new.