Hi everyone. How the title says, I'd like to revive an old laptop from 2013, and also begin the change to Linux since I'm tired of Windows and MacOs. I code and into cybersecurity, so I'd like to use that laptop for those things... Thanks in advance!
Best distro for Toshiba Satellite 4GB AMD E2?
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@laikaa2 :-
Welcome to Linux.org..!
Um; o-kayy... AMD's "E2" series covers several years and more than a few CPU generations. Any chance you could be a bit more specific with hardware info, please.....like which CPU, (we have the amount of RAM; thanks), type/size of main storage, graphics capabilities, etc? Stuff like that, y'know? (We're not very good with the old crystal ball, I'm sorry to say..!)
Otherwise all we're doing is guessing.....and can only offer very general advice.
Don't know much about them, but I've heard a number of rather negative reports concerning Toshie Satellites & Linux. (Could just be hearsay, I suppose.....I have zero experience with them).
Others will be more able to steer you in the right direction. Hang in there...we have to take account of the "time zone" effect, since our members are spread out all round the globe. As some are turning in, others are only just waking up....
Mike.
Welcome to Linux.org..!
Um; o-kayy... AMD's "E2" series covers several years and more than a few CPU generations. Any chance you could be a bit more specific with hardware info, please.....like which CPU, (we have the amount of RAM; thanks), type/size of main storage, graphics capabilities, etc? Stuff like that, y'know? (We're not very good with the old crystal ball, I'm sorry to say..!)
Otherwise all we're doing is guessing.....and can only offer very general advice.
Don't know much about them, but I've heard a number of rather negative reports concerning Toshie Satellites & Linux. (Could just be hearsay, I suppose.....I have zero experience with them).
Others will be more able to steer you in the right direction. Hang in there...we have to take account of the "time zone" effect, since our members are spread out all round the globe. As some are turning in, others are only just waking up....
Mike.
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Rocketing-warp9
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Welcome to linux.org!
For that machine in particular, I would suggest something lightweight, like MX+Fluxbox, Or something with Xfce, Like Mint.
I don't know how far you'd get though with those specs for coding, however.
I have no Idea about the negative experiences, either.
Sorry that I can't help more.
For that machine in particular, I would suggest something lightweight, like MX+Fluxbox, Or something with Xfce, Like Mint.
I don't know how far you'd get though with those specs for coding, however.
I have no Idea about the negative experiences, either.
Sorry that I can't help more.
Hi Mike, thank you for the welcome and your reply! The laptop's specs are:@laikaa2 :-
Welcome to Linux.org..!
Um; o-kayy... AMD's "E2" series covers several years and more than a few CPU generations. Any chance you could be a bit more specific with hardware info, please.....like which CPU, (we have the amount of RAM; thanks), type/size of main storage, graphics capabilities, etc? Stuff like that, y'know? (We're not very good with the old crystal ball, I'm sorry to say..!)
Otherwise all we're doing is guessing.....and can only offer very general advice.
Don't know much about them, but I've heard a number of rather negative reports concerning Toshie Satellites & Linux. (Could just be hearsay, I suppose.....I have zero experience with them).
Others will be more able to steer you in the right direction. Hang in there...we have to take account of the "time zone" effect, since our members are spread out all round the globe. As some are turning in, others are only just waking up....
Mike.
AMD E2-3800 APU with Radeon HD 8200 1.30 GHz
HDD 466GB
I hope that's enough information...
@laikaa2 :-
Thanks for the info. Better than I thought; I was expecting one of the older "Bobcat" dual-cores that topped-out at SSSE3s, but you've got the later "Jaguar" core here - 4 of 'em, actually - and you have AVX and SSE4s to play with.
Yeah. Half-way decent specs, in fact.....just held-back by that small amount of RAM. Be nice if you could source another second-hand 4 GB stick (say, off eBay?) and bring it up to 8GB, but I don't know if the Satellites even have a spare RAM slot...
MX would still be a good choice, even so. That or AntiX, which I have used in the past.
Mike.
Thanks for the info. Better than I thought; I was expecting one of the older "Bobcat" dual-cores that topped-out at SSSE3s, but you've got the later "Jaguar" core here - 4 of 'em, actually - and you have AVX and SSE4s to play with.
Yeah. Half-way decent specs, in fact.....just held-back by that small amount of RAM. Be nice if you could source another second-hand 4 GB stick (say, off eBay?) and bring it up to 8GB, but I don't know if the Satellites even have a spare RAM slot...
MX would still be a good choice, even so. That or AntiX, which I have used in the past.
Mike.
Welcome to the forums
The AMD E2-3800 quad-core was in its day a good CPU even now with only 4 gb of ddr3 is capable of running most distributions for daily computing, BUT I personally would suggest you keep to medium or light builds such as LMDE, Parrot Home, Lubuntu, MX-Linux, and Linux-lite,
The AMD E2-3800 quad-core was in its day a good CPU even now with only 4 gb of ddr3 is capable of running most distributions for daily computing, BUT I personally would suggest you keep to medium or light builds such as LMDE, Parrot Home, Lubuntu, MX-Linux, and Linux-lite,
Distro doesn't matter that much. The Linux kernel is the Linux kernel. The desktop environment matters much more. I would not recommend Gnome, or most of the other common DEs. XFCE should run ok. It runs Debian acceptably on my converted chromebook. Not fast, but acceptably.
Rocketing-warp9
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Fluxbox Is a good choice relating to that as well. Have an old Inspiron with MX+Flux, And That Idles about 0.5-0.6 gb of ram on my 2 GB hardware. Not so fast that it'll Jump to warp, but enough to get some minor things done.
I think they do. Pickup rolling crazy distro like Arch, Manjaro, Fedora, and you will have to deal with problems. Problems not existing in fixed release distros which release when they are ready, like Debian, or long term support ones like Linux Mint.
Rolling releases are nightmare for newbies. They will end up hurt, saying Linux doesn't work and needs constant terminal tinkering.
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