noname_yet2077,

Sometimes linux might work poorly on some machines. Few days ago I had my “Round 2” with my friend’s Lenovo ideapad 110 (this laptop came with Win8 preinstalled). It was a painfully bad machine in terms of performance (maybe some parts are failing in there).

In the “Round 1” I installed Linux Mint, but it was running okay-ish (since she’s a beginner and didn’t wanted any “ancient-looking” DE)

But I’ve done some basic look-arounds about chomebooks (low power, fanless devices) aaand instaling ChromeOS Flex hit the spot!

Yes, this OS is quite limited out of the box (form what I know. I didn’t took a deep dive yet) but for her use case (browsing web and watching videos) it’s perfect!

Not quite answer for your question, but it’s a good thing to know that you can revive some junky-wierd devices

TheAnonymouseJoker,
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LXDE Debian 12 or Lubuntu LTS. Anything else and either it will have bad compatibility, difficulty in usage or crashes or update borking.

GNOME has great touch support if you want to use Ubuntu LTS GNOME, but it is a bit generally heavy (still lighter than Xfce or KDE).

Richardisaguy,
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In my experience, gnome is not heavier than KDE at all

noname_yet2077,

FR?! I always thought Gnome was more demanding :0

JerkyIsSuperior,

You haven't given any useful info. What are the specs? What do you plan to use it for? Media? Gaming? Data storage? Please be more specific.

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