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Thinking about taking and old dell laptop with a bad HDD in a closet and putting a small cheap seagate HDD on it and installing ubuntu as a project and backup PC.
Jan 05 2015 04:26 PM
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    Bill Cipher
    What's the RAM on it? Modern Ubuntu(Stock, not Xubuntu/Lubuntu) seems to have issues with some older laptops due to RAM with all the stuff that Unity does.

    If it's not running Ubuntu well, I'd reccomend(off of the top of my head, haven't had Linux due to issues on my PC due to AMD drivers) Linux Mint.
    Jan 05 2015 05:55 PM
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    Raiden
    4gb of ram.
    Jan 05 2015 06:00 PM
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    Bill Cipher
    Oh, then that should work fine. Old made me think 1GB or under, which has some issues with Ubuntu according to various sources.
    Jan 05 2015 06:41 PM
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