beginner question - Best Distro for needs

cully4299 · 18 Apr 2016 at 12:05

have a old dell PC fixing up for selling and need a distro.
what is the best disto for simple web browsing, office based applications and general browsing?

mint or Ubuntu? or is there something else would be cleaner and more efficient

its a athon 64 x2 5400 2.8ghz dual
onboard graphics chip.
ram ( not labelled and not finished cleaning etc to check)
500gb sata

cully4299 · 18 Apr 2016 at 13:44

lamboman said:
Personally not a huge fan of Mint; Cinnamon is unpolished and a little tacky for my tastes, and I don't see the point of yet another layer of abstraction from Debian when Ubuntu covers virtually every other major DE. My choice would be Ubuntu MATE.

thanks that's what I was thinking. used Ubuntu a couple times before and I seems to be decent for what it is need for

cully4299 · 19 Apr 2016 at 00:13

yashiro said:
Just try a few out instead of accepting what random internet people tell you. Go to Distrowatch and have a poke around.

just asking for suggestions

cully4299 · 19 Apr 2016 at 00:14

Craig321 said:
Ubuntu should be fine on that or as suggested above, Lubuntu might run quicker.

ty will check out

cully4299 · 19 Apr 2016 at 00:14

joeyjojo said:
As above with old hardware the distro choice isn't as important as the desktop environment it comes with, some are very resource intensive.

You should go for one with MATE, LXDE, XFCE, or similar. Search for comparisons e.g. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-lean-linux-desktop-environment-lxde-vs-xfce-vs-mate/

I'd suggest Lubuntu.

thanks

cully4299 · 19 Apr 2016 at 00:15

lamboman said:
Personally not a huge fan of Mint; Cinnamon is unpolished and a little tacky for my tastes, and I don't see the point of yet another layer of abstraction from Debian when Ubuntu covers virtually every other major DE. My choice would be Ubuntu MATE.

mint is so so had a bit of use with ubuntu and seems decient