Help with choosing a distro for a first time linux hope to bring life to an old pc (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by JayEchoRay@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Good day

I would please like to ask for suggestions for first time installation of linux on an old pc that has recently come into my possession

It is

Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz (2 cpu) 2 Gb Ram 1Tb hardrive Onboard graphics 128 mb

I have been looking at Mint and I am assuming that the Xfce Edition would probably be the smarter choice, but I am curious to know if I could use something like Cinnamon Edition and will it run smoothly hitting at the minimum spec of 2Gb RAM. Is their other alternatives that provide a good exprience for the limited resources as I decide to take the plunge?

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[-] JayEchoRay@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thanks I will have a look at it

Edit Exactly as you said, the language prompt that I thought as default language was the prompt for "keyboard language" during installation

Thanks again for the help

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The language you set during installation sets the environment variable LANG which is picked up by the desktop environment to set keyboard language, date format and a few other things.

[-] JayEchoRay@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The more I know, did throw me off though and changed the keyboard setting to US and haven't had issues. At least all the other information will be to my liking so that is a happy accident at least.

Appreciate the information, thank you

this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024

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