A bit over a year ago now I needed to set up my daughter with a computer for distance learning, I used my mother's old iMac from around 2011 I think. 8gib memory, i5-2400s 2.5ghz x4, running Ubuntu 20.04 without a hitch, love it, works great
fast forward and my youngest is in kindergarten now, wants to be like big sister with a computer, got an iMac from a friend that's very similar, I think it's late 2009 or 2010. Also 8gib memory but cpu is a dual core Intel e7600, so yeah a bit less powerful but should be good.
Problem is there are long pauses in operations, especially opening Firefox, to the point it isn't useable - what's the best way to troubleshoot? 20.04 Ubuntu installs fine and depending on what we do it works good, just don't go online I guess... Just installed 21.10 to see if that could help, but I'm thinking may just be best to use a lighter weight distro... I would just prefer them to have a similar experience using a computer so they can help each other out - appreciate any advice here!
fast forward and my youngest is in kindergarten now, wants to be like big sister with a computer, got an iMac from a friend that's very similar, I think it's late 2009 or 2010. Also 8gib memory but cpu is a dual core Intel e7600, so yeah a bit less powerful but should be good.
Problem is there are long pauses in operations, especially opening Firefox, to the point it isn't useable - what's the best way to troubleshoot? 20.04 Ubuntu installs fine and depending on what we do it works good, just don't go online I guess... Just installed 21.10 to see if that could help, but I'm thinking may just be best to use a lighter weight distro... I would just prefer them to have a similar experience using a computer so they can help each other out - appreciate any advice here!