older laptop distro recommendarion - eviltoast

Recently I’ve gave up Windows for Linux and installed Ubuntu with KDE Plasma desktop on my pc and laptop from 2007. It’s an i7 Intel processor with 8gb ddr ram so I thought it would be fine, but it seems quite sluggish. What distro could I use that would be faster and still fully functional? Thanks for your help in advance.

  • GravelPieceOfSword@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Very cool.

    Interesting timing that opensuse recently announced slowroll, which has a slower cadence for updates (updates with monthly frequency, rather than daily, while security updates are still ASAP.

    Depending on whether frequent updates is you thing or you prefer slightly delayed cycles… you can easily convert your install to slowroll

    https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll

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      1 year ago

      To be honest, I don’t really care that much. Once upon a time I got excited about updates and new features, now I just want things to work. I enjoy exploring Linux and how it’s different, I like seeing the updates come in and it makes me feel safer, but at the end of the day, I’m just a normal user who needs much less than the OS offers.