
You might try Linux Mint MATE and/or Xfce (latest is in beta). I'd recommend you read this blog entry for Linux Mint, in regards to MATE version (for juxtaposition with Cinnamon version). http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2038 regards, Daniel Villarreal http://www.youcanlinux.org/ If you're wanting to learn newer ways of doing things, you'd probably going to want to look at CentOS 7, recently updated, and/or Fedora. You might want to look at some different *BSD variants, also. I like the lack of bloat in OpenBSD. On 12/30/15 13:42, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
Machine: old P4 with 1G of RAM an 80G HDD. Was running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but Unity is a real pig with the ancient Intel 865G graphics. Any desktop that tries to use 3D acceleration will be awful. I strongly suspect Fedora's Gnome would be bad.
Is there an easy choice? Would Mint work?
The system should be self-explanatory to casual former Windows users.