Which Linux for gaming on an old machine?

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Please advise what OS is best to put on a machine made from old parts, to be used for gaming, web browsing and watching videos. Specs:

Duo E6300 (oc'd to 2.8 ghz)
1gb ddr2 667
Radeon 1950pro

As you can see its not going to be great for gaming. I've put my spare copy of Windows XP on my gf's laptop & am putting together the above to mess about with. I was thinking of playing some of my old steam games on it now Steam appears to be on Linux.

Please note I am a real Linux noob, I ran Ubuntu on my own netbook for 4 years & recently changed to Mint because it became unstable, I stopped doing updates due to running out of storage space. I can install the OS but have no idea what I'm doing in a terminal window.

Thanks :)
 
It depends - you could install Lubuntu which is a LXDE fork of Ubuntu which is designed to run well on lower-end systems, or you could even probably run Xubuntu on that system pretty well. Lubuntu is pretty good, if not somewhat uglier than it's bigger brothers.

Or you could go for any other distribution really, you could do a Debian install with your DE of choice, or even Arch which would allow you to customize it to your needs, however as you have no terminal knowledge that might not be the best way to go.

Really though you can find terminal commands to install any DE on any Distro via Google pretty easily so it's up to you.
 
Up to you really, any lightweight distro would do, you could then go on to add in any tools you need. Lubuntu would be good, if you ever get good with terminal you could try Arch, it can be as lightweight as you want it to be.
 
englishpremier said:
Lol the system he posted will run any dirsto with any desktop easily. There is no need for a lightweight distro unless that's what he specifically wants.
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This is true hardware wise. However, the graphics software situation is a tad wonky, thus it's smart for a new user to stick with a distro that makes dealing with that easy.
 
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