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Best os for low spec pc?

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moneer

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Hello, I'm trying to bring back some life into an old pc. It has 1gb ram and a 1.6ghz dual core cpu. I've tried installing XP but couldn't find all the necessary drivers. Which os would you recommend I get? It's not used got anything crazy, just web browsing and maybe a few other simple tasks.
 
Probably a Linux. I like Puppy myself. Is that a 64-bit CPU, and how big is the hard drive?

Also, this probably belongs in the Operating Systems forum.
 
I would look into Xubuntu or Lubuntu.....or any of the other Ubuntu flavors for that matter (including Linux Mint).

If loading the OS from a usb stick, I would give pendrivelinux.com a try. The universal usb installer will even let a user set a file size (on step 4) for persistent changes so you can reboot (from usb) without losing any saves like browser bookmarks, etc This feature is rather handy if you are not sure you want to install the OS to HDD, but would like to try the OS for an extended period of time running purely from usb. (unfortunately the max file size is 4GB, but that should be sufficient for a lot of basic work you might do until you are ready to install.)

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P.S. Does your 1.6 Ghz dual core happen to be a E2140?
 
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Any "real Linux" distro (IE, not Puppy, or Tinycore, etc.), not running KDE, will likely be suitable (there are a few distros with lightweight KDE builds, though, so don't completely count KDE out, if the distro specifically says it's made for old/low-end PCs--but, most LXDE distros will be light enough without added work).

If it is an EeePC, there are still distros that have been tweaked for that set of performance limitations, and hardware age (1.6GHz and 1GB RAM, so I'm taking a guess).
 
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I put Linux Mint 15 on an EeePC that had an AMD APU and 1GB RAM, and an 8GB SSD. It was a tight squeeze, but you could do some web browsing on it.
 
Cerb said:
Any "real Linux" distro (IE, not Puppy, or Tinycore, etc.), not running KDE, will likely be suitable (there are a few distros with lightweight KDE builds, though, so don't completely count KDE out, if the distro specifically says it's made for old/low-end PCs--but, most LXDE distros will be light enough without added work).

If it is an EeePC, there are still distros that have been tweaked for that set of performance limitations, and hardware age (1.6GHz and 1GB RAM, so I'm taking a guess).
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VirtualLarry said:
I put Linux Mint 15 on an EeePC that had an AMD APU and 1GB RAM, and an 8GB SSD. It was a tight squeeze, but you could do some web browsing on it.
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It's a Presario c700. Not sure what Eeepc is. I installed Zorin 6.4 core. So far it's running smooth.
 
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