My old computer is preventing me from updating my Ubuntu 16.4 to the current version.

[rasag]

My computer has an AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4200+ CPU, a C61 (GeForce 430 - Nvidia) video card, and 4 GB of RAM. To run Ubuntu 16.04 I use the Nouveau driver. When I try to update it in Ubuntu, it shows image errors. Is there a more compatible distro?

 

[kc1di]

My computer has an AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4200+ CPU, a C61 (GeForce 430 - Nvidia) video card, and 4 GB of RAM. To run Ubuntu 16.04 I use the Nouveau driver. When I try to update it in Ubuntu, it shows image errors. Is there a more compatible distro?

Hello @rasag
Welcome to the forum, enjoy!
Ubuntu 16.04 reached end of life April 2021 unless you have a ubuntu pro account in that case it will receive security updates until April of this year. But if it's the standard 16.04 there will be no servers or updates possible at this time. that is the reason you are getting errors when you try to update. With your old hardware you may be hard pressed to find a Distro that will still work with it. Maybe antix or Puppy. Good luck.

 

[Condobloke]

G'day rasag, Welcome to linux.org

Just fyi, 16.04 reached end of life nearly 5 years ago. It is time for a fresh install.

An up to date distro is necessary....preferably something a bit on the light side ....4 gb of ram is a bit low if you want any speed at all.

Lubuntu might be a good choice.

 

[KGIII]

That distro isn't supported, and hasn't been supported for a long time. All of the repositories will be closed.

You can just backup your important data so that you can install a current version of Ubuntu.

 

[Brickwizard]

As your machine is between 17 and 22 years old I suggest you try Mint LMDE7 it's a bit lighter than Ubuntu

 

[MikeWalsh]

An up to date distro is necessary....preferably something a bit on the light side ....4 gb of ram is a bit low if you want any speed at all.

@Condobloke :-

Unfortunately, Brian - as m'colleague @Brickwizard and I both know all too well! - this generation of AMD CPU (an Athlon64 X2, if I don't miss my guess) is from back in the days of the original DDR1 RAM. This was dual-core, yes.....but no hyperthreading, clock speed of 2.2 GHz (no 'Turbo boost' in those days), and ONLY SSE3s.

It was only one step up from a pair of Pentium 4s slapped together.....but they WERE reliable, for all that.

Unless you were running a specialist dual-socket Socket 939 or Socket 940 mobo at that time, 4 GB was the absolute maximum for any mainstream motherboard. That just WAS your limit in those days.

When I started in 2013, Ubuntu would fit on a CD. These days, a DVD wouldn't "cut the mustard".....for anybody that still uses one, of course. Ubuntu 25.04 / 25.10, with their insistence on overweight Snaps for everything, are gargantuan compared to their older siblings from a decade or more earlier...

Why d'you think I ended up with our Pup?


Mike.