sudo apt-get install gofuckyourself

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The OP question was what to do with A NEW ThinkPad ...
AMD A6 7000
That is marginal hardware IMHO. Low priced for occasional or travel use maybe.
Depends on what you want to use it for ...

As for the rest of the off-topic comments and remarks:

With old hardware and outdated Windows versions (that have no security updates) LINUX is a no cost option. I installed Mint (12?) on a friend's old hp pavilion with xp on it a few years ago -- with 1G RAM and a single core Pentium it ran OK for limited consumer use.
I build my own hardware with superior components to most mid range consumer off-the-shelf computer systems and 'OEM' install LINUX.

If you think LINUX is a third world OS you are just arrogant. Android, Google's flavor of LINUX, is becoming the most used OS in the FIRST world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_...rating_systems

The Apple fan boi pays top money for a UNIX system developed by the BSD project at UC Berkeley that was funded by AT&T's ... Sciences Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California in Berkeley, CA and then granted into the public domain. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates just took parts of the code and and made it proprietary -- creating commercial empires -- bringing modern computing to persons with limited interest, or limited abilities, in computer device management. They found a good market and succeeded within it -- computer device management and eye-candy -- a more polished consumer product with a shiny hood and leather seats. Steve Jobs saw you coming and you bit hook, line and sinker ...

LINUX is for the l33t, we deal with the os code source, and how ever much we argue about our favored distros -- we are hard-to-the-core. Less than 3% of the word's Desktop computer operating systems, Android not included -- Android is Google Dumbed Down LINUX, server installations are excluded from this number, are real workstation or consumer use LINUX.



The Apple argument is a red herring in this thread;
however ... LINUX is used by NASA and is becoming the favored os used by universities and government operating units.

This begs the question, if iOS/OS X is so dammed good; why is iOS/OS X not widely used by universities and government operating units?

Google, NASA, CERN, US DoD and many other ''rocket scientists'' use the LINUX desktop.
@adultking ''If you want to live in the third world land of Linux on the desktop then go for it.'' -- condescending Apple fan boi. Go polish your MacBook -- your over priced status symbol :1orglaugh

Large scale users are not so interested these days in Windows either -- Windows seems to have its back against the wall and offering some native LINUX capabilities -- opening its closed doors to the cancer is proclaimed LINUX was.

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I use Lubuntu on a older TOSHIBA Satellite with a Intel Celeron 2.16 GHz) 2 GB Memory and the machine I'm on now is a older e machine not sure on the specks, picked it up on ebay for 65.00 and it works fine for what I need it to do.

My only issue is Chromium on the laptop for whatever reason crashes and freezes up where I have to hard boot. Installed FF and works great the last 6 months.

Lubuntu and Ubuntu has it purpose. Ubuntu serves more modern PC's. For older systems, may not be the best choice as it is somewhat heavy on your system, although most likely not as heavy as Windows.

Lubuntu is a nice alternative. Based on the LXDE environment which aims to be lightweight, still it's Ubuntu under the hood.
It's No Debian but it's what I prefer for older machines.

You also have Kubuntu and Xubuntu.
Have not played with those yet to give a opinion.

After reading this thread I spent all day yesterday installing Linux Mint on three different VM's, first install kept freezing up then realized it requires a lot more memory and disk space than a usual Debian install. I love the desktop interface so far and I'm thinking of putting it on my netbook, which is being so bogged down with Windows 7 and anti-virus software that's getting more and more difficult to work with.

I pulled the trigger on the Lenovo before I read the advice against it. I used Windows 10 advanced startup to boot into my USB and install Ubuntu. I guess UEFI instead of BIOS now?
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and yeah, Lenovo rocks:thumbsup

I highly recommend Lindows!

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unity launcher disturb me . i love unity without a launcher .

i like gnome over kde because it's more sexy .
you can hide the launcher .

The real question is why any pimps and bros on this board are using old hardware.

precise pangolin is great , i'm still using this os but will disconnect soon, i would stay from 14.04 because it's a memory hog :2 cents:

lucid was fine but not a great as pangolin

Go Apple (Mac) or go home! 😉

14.04? KDE or GNOME (XFCE?)

my new installs are xenial 16.04 -- seems much better so far (knock on wood).

Ubuntu Mate https://ubuntu-mate.org/

Go solid state hdd - best thing ever invented.

Dave

running ubuntu...it is able to play movies...windows media player or other...skype...jabber....thunderbird...etc?

I haven't tried skype, jabber or thunderbird.

Was playing some videos on some sites and not on others. Flash videos were the ones not playing, I believe.

I ran "apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" and those seem to play okay now.

I had an issue where the OS would periodically just freeze up and I would have to turn off the computer to restart. I don't know what was causing that, But have not had the issue in the last couple of weeks. Maybe fixed with one of the updates. Been running "sudo apt-get update" at every start-up.

gnome always , ram was totally taken i loved the bars and effects but this not enough.
since this higher version mostly it will demand even more memory !

sure u can find all this apps

windows media player > mplayer