The Fugitive Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 6 hours ago, simon43 said: Thanks for all the good advice here. I'm going to partition my drive and install Linux Mint, and see how the laptop performs. As mentioned, it's an old laptop running bloated Windows 10, so no surprises that the CPU is under heavy load. @MrJ2U, this is my second/back-up laptop. My main laptop is a Ryzen i7 which runs fast and fine ???? Good solution. There are two options for Linux Mint; Ubuntu based and Debian based. You may find the Debian based runs a little lighter. Debian versions of SlimJet browser will install upon both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozimoron Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 1 hour ago, The Fugitive said: Good solution. There are two options for Linux Mint; Ubuntu based and Debian based. You may find the Debian based runs a little lighter. Debian versions of SlimJet browser will install upon both. Ubuntu is a debian distro. The main reason I see people choose mint is that it has a desktop which is more similar to windows. I have used ubuntu for the past 13 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gargamon Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 1 hour ago, The Fugitive said: Good solution. There are two options for Linux Mint; Ubuntu based and Debian based. You may find the Debian based runs a little lighter. Debian versions of SlimJet browser will install upon both. But Ubuntu is debian based... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozimoron Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 1 hour ago, The Fugitive said: Good solution. There are two options for Linux Mint; Ubuntu based and Debian based. You may find the Debian based runs a little lighter. Debian versions of SlimJet browser will install upon both. There are not 2 versions of linux mint. Apart from the desktop it's identical to ubuntu. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fugitive Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 1 hour ago, gargamon said: But Ubuntu is debian based... https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php We're talking about Linux Mint. Linux Mint is offered with a choice of either a Ubuntu or a Debian base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozimoron Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 5 minutes ago, The Fugitive said: https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php We're talking about Linux Mint. Linux Mint is offered with a choice of either a Ubuntu or a Debian base. The difference between these two and ubuntu is basically the desktop UI. core differences: nil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fugitive Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 1 hour ago, ozimoron said: There are not 2 versions of linux mint. Apart from the desktop it's identical to ubuntu. 'LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead'. Thank you for your information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozimoron Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, The Fugitive said: 'LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead'. Thank you for your information. Functionally identical. They just want to remove reliance on Canonical for the package manager.. Edited July 17, 2023 by ozimoron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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