So my wife has a 10 year old low end notbook. 500Gb of storage (HDD), 2GB of GDR3 RAM, and an intel Celeron Processor N2806. It originally came with Win 8, then she “upgraded” to win 10 and after that it was pretty much unusable. I am talking CPU and Ram about 80-90% in idle, opening a browser got everything down to a crawl. She mostly used it a storage and brwosing, watching youtube and occasionally to write. So I (also a Linux newbie) finally got the time to install a newbie friendly Os (Fedora) and it’s so much better! I am Talking 20%CPU usage and 50%(?) RAM in idle.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You did good opting for a Linux distribution, but Gnome (Fedora’s desktop environment) is still pretty heavy: they recommend 4GB ram at least.
    I would suggest a more lightweight desktop environment like LXQt. The best distributions that ship it are:

    • Fedora LXQt edition: if you’re already used to Fedora commands and dnf package manager
    • Lubuntu: probably the most user friendly for beginners
    • SparkyLinux: for users that are a little more advanced but that has the lightest and most rock solid base (Debian)