Which distro will fit my old laptop?

Software & Operating Systems Linux
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Laptop: HP Probook 4720s

CPU: Intel P6200 2.1GHz

GPU: Radeon HD 6300M

RAM: 3GB

Storage: 120GB SSD

WiFi card: Broadcom

I’m looking for a distro for daily use. Good support and community.

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Lubuntu, maybe.

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http://puppylinux.com/

Puppy linux. UI is similar to Windows, and it’s size is like 300MB.

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why didn’t you reply to your last thread asking for a distro?

if this one is the same I am warning you I will close this for low effort

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That thread was for my main PC. This one is for my old laptop.

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Ok but why are you not engaging with people that want to help you?

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I’m not that experienced in Linux.

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Just make a single thread for all of your Linux noob questions, and feel free to share your experience in that thread.

Making threads of the same question constantly can drive some users nuts, especially if they want to go through your previous posts in your threads in which case they will have to make a reply from one to another, and that would give not only you but others a hard time to to provide you assistance.

Just a suggestion.

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If you’re not experienced, ask questions, share your experience and engage with the community. The leadership looked at your lack of response and wasn’t sure if you were trying to stir up trouble or if there was something else.

We want to help, but we also can’t help that we’ll if you don’t feed back to those who help.

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I had an old emachines 1300 w/AMD Athlon 2650e Processor
I upgraded the 1 gig of ram to 2 gig ddr2

I then burned 3 popular “Light” distros
Puppy
LXLE
forget the other one

Puppy froze on mine, I forget what the other one did.
LXLE ran like a champ!
I am NOT saying LXLE is best for you. The nice thing about Linux is you can burn several Distro’s and see which on first doesn’t freeze and you like.
Also LXLE had a youtube player that worked great because the machine did not have the power to play a youtube video in browser.
Have Fun!
PS…Installing the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver after install really gave a much needed boost. These lightwaight distros’ are just flat out amazing compared to the MS version it came with.

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I’d use literally anything with that. Give it 10GB of swap and dab my buddy.

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Linux lite

Very stable lightweight and great distro.
And it is really user friendly for new users too.

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I already did that exact same suggestion a while a go aswell…

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Solus, Mint… Tested on old c2d and 4GB, antiX tested on P4 2Ghz 512MB.