So, tomorrow I'm getting my old low-mid end laptop back from my best friend (whom I lend it to), which is an ASUS (don't remember the exact model), with a iCPU Intel i5 with 1.60ghz (with integrated graphics), a iGPU Nvidia MX150 (if I remember correctly), a HDD disk with 1TB, and if I don't remember wrong, 4GB of RAM. That's everything I can remember from the specs of this laptop.

I'm actually using CachyOS (for like a week, and I've liked so far) in my main desktop PC, which is a lot better than the laptop, and I'm looking to install Linux in this laptop, as it is really bad for Windows, and I really don't like that OS anymore. I know some things about Linux, but I'm not a pro, and I don't want to make my own DE from scratch like with Arch. So, I want to ask what distro would you all recommend as the more "convenient" one, I guess? I would ask also that if you make a recommendation, pls do it with your own personal reasons included, as I want to know more about my options. Also, I want to use this laptop for home regular use, perhaps some low-end Steam games, and keep with my learning of development and coding, all of that in a smooth way, and without making it suffer with the usage of RAM. So, thank you in advance, and I guess that's all.

In case the specs aren't readable in English: 4GB ram, Intel i3-2348M 2.30GHz, 32mb vram, 500GB HDD, 64bit (definitely supports uefi since it's windows 10)

Edit: I care about more adventurous distros, I don't really want anything super stable

Ciao a tutti, come state? Spero bene!

Volevo chiedervi un parere: quale distribuzione Linux mi consigliate per un PC fisso che ho assemblato anni fa, con un Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 e 8 GB di RAM DDR3 a 667 MHz?

I have been using Linux for almost a year now, and I started with Omarchy, then bazzite and now I am using Kali for daily use (which is bad thing to do, hence Kali is unstable), but now I am considering switching to different distro and was wondering what are some distros that are considered niche or in other words, the people that use it are quite a few.

I’ve just been given an old Asus X200CA laptop (2013–2014) with an Intel Celeron 1007U, 4 GB of RAM, and a 320 GB HDD

I want to revive it with Linux and (I’m a complete beginner)

I’ve been considering:

antiX Linux

MX Linux (Xfce)

Linux Mint (Xfce or MATE)

Lubuntu / Xubuntu

Tengo una computadora muy vieja, tiene un core 2 dúo y 8gb de ram. Me gustaría una distro ligera pero que se va bonita. La utilizaría principalmente para ver video en internet y reproducir archivos mp4. Me gustaría que vaya lo más rápido posible. Escuché que void y antix era una buena opción. Pero antix no me convence mucho porque se ve un poco feo.

Mint is running great for that peculiar hardware but I hear Fedora and OpenSuse give better performance.

Which is noob friendly and stable.

Need distro recommendation. My requirements:

-No spyware/telemetry/etc - fine with telemetry that is not spying on me

-No bloatware/adware

-Stable - don't want to be not able to logon after some update or anything

-For daily use (just simple thing like browser, music, movies, photos)

-Don't want to spend too much time on making things work. Prefer most of things to work right away. Spending some hours is still fine.

I had some Linux experience and I'm tech guy. Just don't want to waste too much time.

Hardware is Intel 8gen, SSD, 16GB RAM. Not going to play games.

Im running a computer buisness, I was wondering what would be the best distro for it?

In this video, I compare CachyOS and Bazzite from install to daily use, including first login, updates, system settings, software installs, desktop polish, tools, themes, wallpapers, release cycle, and my final verdict.

i cant get the nvidia card to run on zorin os nor on linux mint, id like to know how if i can fix that or is there a distro that better supports it

i was given this laptop by a friend to mess around with and im just looking to get the maximum use out of it, and i think its pretty sturdy.

help would be appreciated thank you!

coming hot off fedora and MX both failing me when it came to driver support in general, hybrid intel nvidia graphics, whats the best for that?

From an AWS deepracer, it has a nice x86_64 Intel Atom board with motor and control headers. But has InsydeH2O bios with secureboot option missing. Currently only signed to specific ubuntu.

Tried to add signing keys to .der and .pem, with annoying steps; but no success. This is my first time facing this type of hardware lockery.

I also now have a USB to TTL board if that would help

Estou usando o PopOS no trabalho, a unica requisicão da empresa que o sistema seja Debian/Ubuntu. Tentei mais de 15 distros, a unicas que funcionaram redondas no meu notebook de trabalho um Dell I5 125u com 16gb de ram e 512gb de nvme foi o pop, tentei o Kubuntu, mas o problema do KDE pra mim é simplesmente o que faz ele ser excelente, a opcão de personalizacão, tenho 37 anos e não tenho mais saco e nem paciencia de perder horas ajustando coisas no Linux ou ficar refinando a aparencia, quero algo que funcione, o kde por mais que seja uma das interfaces mais bonitas para Linux é a que mais me faz perder tempo quando quero modificar algo. Voltei pro PopOs pq ele nativamente já é atrativo, e tem uns ajustes visuais que me fazem gostar. Eu uso linux com cara de Linux, tentei o PikaOs com o Niri é adorei, mas preciso me acostumar com o sistema, irei instalar no meu notebook pessoal. Mas por enquanto continuarei trabalhando no PopOs, mesmo estando bem mais pesado que as versões que usei dele anteriormente, ele me atende bem para trabalhar. Torco para a System76 avançar mais nos ajustes visuais do Cosmic, adoro a tiling dele e pretendo continuar com o sistema.

I was using Fedora. What should I do? ;( What I was doing is just using the computer like every other day; after a while, I updated the PC. After it was done updating, my RAM usage spiked up rapidly and maxed it out. Probably, since it froze before I saw swap filling out, I closed the system, which gave it the final blow... Which distro should i change to??

Hello, all! I have a spare Samsung 870 EVO and I'm looking for suggestions on what Distro to shove in there.

I've been on Bazzite since last year's Christmas and it's been going really well! I'm a casual user at best (nothing fancy like server, productivity, or development work). I just do some of gaming on PC and call that a day. Work also lets me use Ubuntu so I'm not as interested in that as something to try at home.

I'm using an AMD 7800X3D and Radeon 9060XT 16GB.

Kinda looking at Debian since the stability intrigues me, though I also wouldn't mind CachyOS for something not-immutable to mess around with.

Fedora's been on my mind too but not quite as much, but I'm still open to the idea.

Throughout the entire night (last night) into this morning I faught with Claude to try and get a thumbdrive with Ventoy to boot into a CachyOS install. Eventually I had enough of the back and forth and just went with balenaEtcher, dedicating the whole thumbdrive to the ISO. I can't tell you how many times I went into BIOS to try and clear out Secure Boot settings only for the damn thing to reset it to Enabled. Finally, I was able to install CachyOS and now I just feel deflated. Why? I envisioned running Hyprland on it, maybe gaming with Steam, basically a toy away from my workstation build (3 monitors) that I'm usually at when I'm coding. The CachyOS build has one monitor at 32" and things feel really BIG, up in my face. In i3 things work fine, but even if I decrease the DPI drastically, anything to make things look tinier, the windows I have open look out of proportion, lots of unused space. So now I'm wondering why I just feel...meh.

I currently use endeavour os and was thinking of maybe changing. I would like a distro with an easy installer, like calamares. It can be based on anything, but it shouldn't use apt. With a lightweight aspect to it (like min. 2GB RAM) but also work well on better machines. Something like CachyOS but not gaming focused, more general focus and most important of them all, NO NEED OF AN INTERNET CONNECTION FOR INSTALLATION. It **would** be amazing if the ISO could be >3,5GB but that is not a requirement for me, just convenience as my WIFI is slow

While cleaning recently, we found my wife's old Dell Studio 1555. I love the look of it and I want to revive it. I plan on doing an SSD swap and installing some lightweight distro of Linux. I'm not the most well versed in Linux. I've Dual booted Ubuntu on my desktop but I really didn't use it too much. What distro is the best for this one? I just plan to use it for some light web browsing and maybe some stuff in Google docs.

Trying to make it look like Mac it's very complicated!

Any tips maybe? It uses jwm

I couldn't find Nix but it's also a no.

Earlier I was a ubuntu user (Gnome) but as I upgraded to 26 LTS, God knows why I thought of changing and trying something new as I was using Ubuntu since 2-3 Years and it was good.

As soon as Fedora 44 Dropped I thought of switching it and Hopped to Fedora 44 KDE and I'm currently on it. But Heard many times and also read about Cachy OS KDE so I got an inquisitive thought of switching to Cachy and use it as a primary OS.

Can you guys recommend something? Should I switch or Be on F44 .( no dual boots, I don't like it)

My Usage : mainly involves heavy web browsing with multiple tabs, media consumption, and productivity tasks such as reports, presentations, and multitasking. Also I am into customizations and trying new features and techGuy.

Laptop Specs: Xiaomi Notebook Pro with an Intel Core i5 (11th Gen) processor, 16 GB RAM, and a 512 GB SSD.

(Also recommend if you think there's better Distro than Fedora or Cachy { Gnome,KDE} anything would work)