Hi,
I'm going through forums and reddit to find a lightweight, friendly and secure distro for a 6-years old laptop. It's a version of ASUS Zenbook, I think its specs are: Intel Core i5 6th gen, NVIDIA GeForce 940M graphics card as well as an Intel Graphics card and RAM of 4GB. I'm thinking of upgrading it to 8GB, but would still like a light distro with an easy installation. I will mostly use it for browsing, perhaps video-calls and maybe some data analysis coding (RStudio, Anaconda).
I used to have Ubuntu and Manjaro, but not sure if current versions of those wouldn't overwhelm this laptop.
I'm assuming I need to go with XFCE as a flavor.
I really liked Manjaro, but Arch looks way too advanced in installation for me. I'm thinking of trying EndeavourOS, since they write
Perhaps there are other options that I'm missing.
I'm going through forums and reddit to find a lightweight, friendly and secure distro for a 6-years old laptop. It's a version of ASUS Zenbook, I think its specs are: Intel Core i5 6th gen, NVIDIA GeForce 940M graphics card as well as an Intel Graphics card and RAM of 4GB. I'm thinking of upgrading it to 8GB, but would still like a light distro with an easy installation. I will mostly use it for browsing, perhaps video-calls and maybe some data analysis coding (RStudio, Anaconda).
I used to have Ubuntu and Manjaro, but not sure if current versions of those wouldn't overwhelm this laptop.
I'm assuming I need to go with XFCE as a flavor.
I really liked Manjaro, but Arch looks way too advanced in installation for me. I'm thinking of trying EndeavourOS, since they write
Xfce
A highly customizable and lightweight Desktop Environment with a traditional touch and feel. The perfect choice for lower specs hardware that requires a minimum of 2 GB of RAM, but for a smooth experience we recommend 4 GB of RAM.
Perhaps there are other options that I'm missing.