fastest and usable linux distro for dell mini netbook

wesley · 12 May 2016 at 13:38

hi

i have an old dell mini 10 netbook , single atom core, 1GB ram.

very very slow.

so which is fastest and usable linux distro?

i tried lubuntu, its too heavy and slow.

also tried puppylinux slack and it would not detect the video at all.

so which one i should try?

thanks

MookJong · 12 May 2016 at 14:23

Debain?

joey1211 · 12 May 2016 at 14:26

Damn Small Linux

wesley · 12 May 2016 at 14:42

never thought about damn small linux,. will try this

thanks guys

wesley · 12 May 2016 at 14:57

damn small linux doesnt work

thought linux are meant to be user friendly

joey1211 · 12 May 2016 at 15:03

mydellmini seems to be a site you'll be wanting to visit

wesley · 12 May 2016 at 15:11

wow never knew this site existed!!!

seems win10 works well on dell mini netbook. will try win10 lol

HecFam · 12 May 2016 at 15:13

On my dell Mini 10, I used to run Elementary OS.

I always found it to be quite user friendly, taking aspects from OSX with a dock.

Not the lightest/fastest, but ran ok on Atom/2GB/60GB SSD

joeyjojo · 12 May 2016 at 20:41

Have a look at https://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Old+Computers

ExoMale · 24 Mar 2017 at 01:05

I know this is old topic now, figured I'd share an input for anyone else scrolling through the pages like me, but the lightest Linux I've used so far that wasn't so basic and just cmd based is zorin 09' I only use lite or education version as they free off their download page, but very simply to use, education has some nice included programs and some cool packages can be installed also and nit heavy on hardware.

In the early use of zorin 09(early last year or 2015 some tine) I installed it in a very old P3 desktop with whatever it's graphics chip was And had either 256/368/512mb ram(it was given to me free and was faffing with computers has a hobby back then)as Windows 7 32 home installed, but graphics was shocking, zorin seemed to work wonders on it, but I'm a Windows man do never done to much with Linux.