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Looking for a good Linux to install on a slow 2019 machine. Relative beginner with Linux. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! My old laptops hard drive packed it in, so I got a new one and now need to flash drive an operating system on it. I think this is my time to give Linux a proper go. I tried it before for my gaming PC but switched for a cracked Windows key because I was young and not bothered to learn.

Well, now is my chance to give it another go. I'm looking for a Linux optimised for performance on an HP 255 G7. Threadbare, but not so bare that it'll require me to do a load of complicated stuff to do the basics. I'll just be using it for YouTube and Google docs really. Any help/advice/orders are appreciated.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't an old laptop

I have it too. It's just bottlenecked with 5,400RPM SMR HDD, in other words, as slow as it gets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That should be an easy fix though, you can get a 512GB SSD for $25-35. In fact OP said they were doing this because the original drive failed. You'd notice a huge difference going to flash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, that's what I did. Super fast now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

512GB wouldn't be enough for me, and larger SSDs are too expensive. Also opening this laptop seems like a pain in the ass trying not to break display cables from teardown video I've seen.

And yeah, I know. I switched back from SSD after my secondary laptop failed. Going from 8-10 second boot-up to multi-minute boot-up can really be felt. That was a 16 year old laptop with such speed, by the way. SSD seems like a magic.