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.

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    1 year ago

    If you haven’t yet, I would run the following commands:

    sudo zypper install opi

    opi codecs

    This will enable the Packman repositories (repos will commonly used non-free software, like multimedia codecs) and install multimedia codecs for watching videos and playing music and the like.

    Anyway, I’m glad you’re enjoying OpenSUSE! It’s a delightful distro and community.