Os for an old laptop

What Os should I install on my old laptop with a intel celeron and 3 Gb of RAM? What is your favorite Linux flavor?

I was Going to say XP, but nm...

yeah I meant some flavor of linux or chrome os

if its dell they should have pretty good ubuntu support

i would say debian cause untiy in ubunbtu is resource pig!!!!

 

Well my favorite linux flavor has to be Open SuSe, but Ubuntu 13.04 is warming on me. For your older laptop, I would say Bodhi Linux is great for older hardware.

No it is HP

I would vow for Zorin OS, its a good all around system

would chromium be good?

I'd go for Debian. "Switched" from Ubuntu a while ago. Little less user-friendly, but snappier over all.

I might as well say it here since people are here already.

What's a good OS for an Acer laptop with 2 GBs of DDR3 RAM, Pentium Dual Core (don't know the exact CPU), and 130GBs of storage across 2 hard drives. My mom wants me to wipe the laptop because Vista is horrible and no one around has a Windows 7 disc.

Depending on how PC savvy your Mom is either Debian [tricky sometimes] or Ubuntu 12.04 32bit [really userfriendly, easy to install, easy to use, hard to break]

And since it's somewhat able to run Vista, it should do fine even with Unity, which I'd say is much more casual-friendly ^^

Lubuntu should work good, really lightweight and really user friendly

How about 13.04. or is there no 32 bit version?

13.04 has Amazon integration and so on and so forth, 12.04 is a LTS will be updated for a long time, and I have made bad experiences with 13.04 and older GPUs / CPUs while 12.04 worked flawlessly ^^

Alirght, thank you, will wipe everything using DBAN and install Ubuntu shortly.

Sure np.

Be sure to try Vector Linux 7.0 Gold. It looks very basic in terms of GUI, but it will fly on older hardware. It's not leading edge by any stretch of the imagination, but it does pretty much everything a general user needs, and has quite a bit of software preinstalled (mostly slightly older versions that use less storage and RAM). Ever seen a system running GIMP and firefox and a word processor at the same time, and still use less than 150 MB of RAM and feel snappy on a Pentium III? This is such a system! And it works like that out of the box, you don't have to compile anything, tweak anything, etc... I bet it outruns a modern desktop running Windows or Ubuntu+Unity/Cinnamon in generic tasks! You really won't believe your eyes!

You can also install Arch or Gentoo or compile your own distro from scratch, which will give you exactly what you need and nothing you don't, with huge performance benefits as a result.

Whichever is prettiest at the time. Usually this means Mint, but not necessarily.

Puppy Linux is a nice small one. Or if you need to go really tiny Damn Small Linux (DSL) is great for ancient pcs :)