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MacBook died, currently in the lab, have a TERRIBLE dual core T4200, 3GB ram temp laptop replacement with VISTA.

Which Linux OS should I replace it for Dev/uni sake for few days? Considering that I don't have too much time on my hand to fix the tiniest headaches that comes after a Linux installation.

Like I'm looking for a distro that just works and is good.

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  • 2
    7y
    Arch if you are up for the install else Ubuntu never goes wrong
  • 0
    7y
    @lxmcf To be completely honest I have never understood the concept of installing arch, care to bring me in loop about it?
  • 2
    7y
    Gentoo 😂
  • 0
    7y
    Just use whatever gets the job done.
  • 0
    7y
    @Revenger it's very open, you essentially build the distro yourself, and once you do it you'll understand it, it's hard to explain
  • 0
    7y
    Lubuntu or Xubuntu or Ubuntu Mate. For PPAs.
  • 1
    7y
    I prefer Lubuntu in this case ...

    Lubuntu gives life to old laptops yet providing handy desktop environment.
  • 0
    7y
    Linux lite for a bad laptop
  • 0
    7y
    I recently installed Debian with xfce on a really old laptop (single core CPU @ 2GHz, 2GB RAM) and have no problems with it.
  • 0
    7y
    Bad computer will run OpenSUSE well. Esp. if you do a bare minimum install and install something like openbox on top
  • 0
    7y
    @tacyarg this is the computing equivalent of “what’s the time?” -> “time to buy a watch”
  • 0
    7y
    I suggest Manjaro with xfce
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