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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
A friend has a couple of old Laptops that she wants me to get working - Of course no money...
They are fine but just 2GB Ram etc - OLD - She is not not techy at all and all she wants is to do an online course so all she will be dong is firing up Chrome - I was thinking a lightweight Linux distro and desktop environment - Would Mint with LXQT work OK?....
I can't find an easy way to just set-up ChromeOS as that would be ideal - Any ideas?..
Thanks
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That should work fine. As others have noted, 2Gb is tight but assuming you have a decent SSD it should be fine. I would give it a big swap partition (10GB min) and set the swappiness low to around 20. Once it's installed, you can test the performance and if you don't like it, you're not married to that desktop. You can also install XFCE or some other lightweight desktop from the software manager and choose it at login and try again.
Heck, depending on how adaptable your friend is, you could even skip the desktop completely and go old school with a slick WM like Windowmaker, which still rocks even today (I still use it some). I even showed it to my wife, who is a techno-retard and she liked it. Set your friend up with some right click menu items for basic common applications like Chrome and you're in business. Windowmaker would rock and roll in 2GB.
