new installation seems very slow

[heretical_1]

Good morning, everybody! I had another thread going wherein I mentioned that I had to install a new os in order to attack an issue I am having. @KGIII suggested that I start a new thread for the issue of the new os running vwry slowly. This is the command he suggested that I use, and the results. My apologies for not being able to post the output in code format, since there seems to be no way to copy the code from the puter to the phone and then copy and paste it into this post. The screenshot covers most of the ouput, although the last few lines would have taken another screenshot, which might be confusimg and hard to follow, bit this should provide the basics necessary to start troubleshooting this. Thanks!

inxi -v 5

 

[kc1di]

I would suggest that zorin is not the right distro for that machine you only have and i3 (dual core processor) and 4 gbs ram. That is not going to run a gnome Desktop that zorin uses. Gnome is one of the heaviest DE on resources Linux has. you would be much better off running a distro with xfce or lxqt or similar. Lubuntu may work. antx, even mx with xfce. There are others.

 

[heretical_1]

awesome! I will finish copying all of those "missing" files that caused me to need to get a different os onto another hard drive and then work on downgrading to something more appropriate to my machine. I chose Zorin because (a) I had good experience with it on a better machine a few years ago, and (b) the installation instructions seemed easier to follow than some of the others I looked at. Are there any distros or programs that in your opinion would be better for video and audio editing?
Thanks again!

 

[kc1di]

With that machine and the amount of ram you will have a hard time doing any video editing. but audio should be possible.
So can't really advise you on that too well. Others here could most likely give you better advise on that.

 

[heretical_1]

darn. Guess I will just have to muddle along as best I can once I get another distro installed. Thank you!

 

[KGIII]

Thread 'The 'code' tag, and why it matters...'

Aug 17, 2025

This is based off a PM conversation that made good sense to me.

The forum has a neat feature. That feature is the ability to format your text. Most of the time, there's no reason to format your text.

On the other hand, there's a time when it's very important. When is that? When it's code tags.

Note: You can get away without using code tags if it's just a line or two, but code tags make it easier to read, process, search, etc... If it's just a small amount of code, you can use 'markdown', which would be:

`code goes here`

The output would look something like:

code goes here...

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[theLegionWithin]

the i3-2120 was released 15 years ago - and with 4gb ram you're going to want to go with a distro that doesnt chew up a lot of resources. tinycore, or maybe one of the puppy forks. here's some examples --> https://www.techradar.com/news/best-lightweight-linux-distro

 

[f33dm3bits]

There's also ZorinOS Lite.

Getting Zorin OS Lite

Zorin OS Lite will continue to be available in the Zorin OS 17 and Zorin OS 18 release series.

help.zorin.com

Otherwise I would give Linux Mint with Cinnamon a try and if you don't like that try one of these(ZorinOS Lite is listed there too).

16 Best Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older Computers

Don’t throw your old computer just yet. Use a lightweight Linux distro and revive that decades-old system.

itsfoss.com