Well, usual answers would be - Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu-Mate (in that order) - same on Debian side Something off left field, try "AntiX". It's Debian + XFCE, so you can do "apt-get" all you want. I couldn't find similar smallish distro on the right field... -- William On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 01:42:45PM -0500, 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?
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