melroy, 10 months ago

@peter Try Linux Mint, but then the XFCE edition ;)

jcrabapple, 10 months ago

@peter I use OpenSUSE MicroOS on one, and Fedora Silverblue on the other.

Sequester7238, 10 months ago

@jcrabapple @peter How do they compare in your experience?

jcrabapple, 10 months ago

@Sequester7238 for what I do they're essentially the same

@peter

Biorez, 10 months ago

@peter I'm curious, what made you alternate between mint and ubuntu?

peter, 10 months ago

@Biorez originally WiFi.

At one point I had Ubuntu on a laptop but couldn't get WiFi working. When I tried Mint it just worked.

On the next machine I tried Ubuntu again and that worked fine, so over the years I've just tried each one in turn to see how they compared.

This specific laptop's now 10 years old but I've rebuilt it many times over the years & again alternated between them - right now it's Ubuntu.

This time I'm wondering if to try something else first for a change

Bashingom, 10 months ago

@peter @Biorez
I have ran Xubuntu (minimal install) on old old hardware here - with absolutely no heart burn.

cheers

CaptMikeYates, 10 months ago

@peter My SL510 Thinkpad is going to my Mum next week and has Mint Linux on it.

Sequester7238, 10 months ago

@peter I like using #openSUSE on my laptops. I'll admit they're both older laptops, though. If I had to try on a new laptop I'd go for openSUSE Tumbleweed.

ivor, 10 months ago

@peter I always use openSuse on my Thinkpads (indeed some 10y old) Tumbleweed on some, but Leap on most, it's always just felt the right setup for me. (always found KDE to be my environment, and opensuse seemed better configured for KDE)
Although I did have a dalliance with LFS for many years until life took over and I didn't have enough hours in the day. 😄​

jonathangroves, 10 months ago

@peter I’ve always found Ubuntu does everything I need. I mostly use the Server version (on several old iMacs!) but Desktop works well.

mos_8502, 10 months ago

@peter Debian. For best performance, use the XFS filesystem.

gpowerf, 10 months ago

@peter Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, and Debian are my choices.

ljmc, 10 months ago

@peter I use fedora everywhere these days. But a while ago I used alpine on an Atom z8350 based laptop, it was an interesting experience.

jgsjames, 10 months ago

@peter I've Kubuntu on a 1st gen Microsoft Surface Laptop and Ubuntu on a 5th gen Surface tablet. Aside from the camera all works well.

peter, 10 months ago

@jgsjames yeah, the camera I'm not worried about - can't remember ever using the one on the old laptop