Old Toshiba Laptop

[Gina Welch]

Hi everyone.. I have an old toshiba laptop, 32 bit, 2.5 ram, AMD 64x2, 1.60 Ghz /Windows Vista. Chrome no longer works and Vista is no longer supported. So I want to wipe it clean and add a Linux OS. Any suggestions? This is strictly a play laptop now and I want to see what I can do with it. Thanks

 

[arochester]

Linux Lite has a very good guide for people new to Linux - https://www.linuxliteos.com/ and https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/

 

[Gina Welch]

Thanks so much. I was able to download Linux Lite and completely installed it on my old laptop. I couldnt even get Firefox to work on the old Windows Vista OS. I love the new OS and plan to explore it throughly.

 

[arochester]

If you have any problems please come back and ask us.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Hi @Gina Welch & welcome to linux.org

Do I take it, that you installed the latest, Linux Lite 4.0? If so, then it is the first of their product to ship with Timeshift, which is covered in their Tutorials on the Help Manual @arochester has referred to.

If the previous version, 3.8, Timeshift is not installed by default, but can be added as per my Tutorial here

https://www.linux.org/threads/timeshift-similar-solutions-safeguard-recover-your-linux.15241/

Also, if you have not already enabled your firewall in LL, you can do so with the following, at Terminal

sudo ufw enable

It will prompt for your password, enter it (there will be no apparent movement at the insertion point (security) and press Enter, you will get something like this

Cheers and enjoy your adventures

Chris Turner
wizardfromoz