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d3Xt3r ,

For such an old system, your DE matters more than anything. I’d recommend XFCE, or even LXQT. Definitely upgrade your RAM though, that’ll give it a nice boost - DDR3 should be pretty cheap now. Any cheap SSD should be a big improvement as well.

I’ve got Zorin installed on my mum’s PC (which is just as old as yours), and it works really well, even on a regular HDD.

Atemu ,
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You don’t need to think about your DE choice w.r.t. performance on their class of hardware. It can run the heaviest DEs just fine.

d3Xt3r ,

I disagree, try running KDE on a 4th Gen i3 and compare it vs a modern system, the performance difference is pretty night-and-day. It’s not exactly unusable or anything, but it just doesn’t feel snappy and responsive, when compared to a lightweight DE on the same hardware.

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