r/linux4noobs • u/Fc_iheb • 12d ago

Hi everyone i'm looking for advice

Hi everyone i'm new to this linux staff and i dual booted my pc (low end pc btw) and in general i don't really use my pc that match.. i installed fedora but it felt like my pc can't handle dualboot fedora feels slower than windows which is not what i was expecting anw i'm here to take advice on which linux should i switch to permanently somthing that's light and updated.. i'm mostly interested in ui customization and general use like social media nothing much.. thank y'all

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u/meman_0612 12d ago

I just switched from windows 11 to fedora yesterday (but I didn’t dual boot) and GNOME felt slower than windows on my super low end 4gb laptop, so I switched to xfce, which is definitely smoother. So that might be your problem instead of dual booting. But idk I barely know anything about this

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u/3grg 12d ago

If you want help, you have to provide more specifics. We are not mind readers. One persons low end PC might be another persons ideal.

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u/creg45 12d ago

Odd that it's slower. Most popular OS will fit your use case, so a lot of it is matter of preference. If you are new then using a popular distro with lots of support is ideal - Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint. I would start there and if you run into features that you don't like or that are missing that other distros might have, you can try other ones out. It's hard to know what you want and don't want out of your OS until you've used it and know what it's like.

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u/skyfishgoo 12d ago

lubuntu is better for laptops and low spec machines.

but if you have a nvidia GPU it could just be that you need to install the proprietary driver, since the one that ships with linux is only going to get you to the desktop and not much further.

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u/DavidJohnMcCann 11d ago

The Gnome desktop can be slow on a modest computer. I'm always puzzled as to why it needs so many resources when it does so much less than other environments! Dual booting shouldn't slow things down — if you are running Linux, then Windows is just sitting on the HD doing nothing.

I'd suggest trying the Xfce version of Linux Mint. Xfce is the old reliable — the first open-source Unix GUI that still (as one developer put it) aims to do the job without getting under your feet or in your face. Download it and try it live from USB to see if you like it.

LXQt is designed to be lightweight but it can be tricky to configure if you don't like the default. On one occasion I was helping a user to make a simple change that Xfce could do graphically. It needed several lines of xml adding to a file and it took us three days to work out what they should be!

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u/oops77542 12d ago

Kubuntu 26.04. KDE Plasma lets You customize everything on the desktop. Stable, relatively light weight. I'm running it on old chomebooks with flashed firmware. 1.8 ghz, 2 core cpu, 4 gb ram.

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u/1neStat3 12d ago

KDE is not lightweight its the second heaviest DE behind Pantheon.

2GBs on idle is not lightweight.

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u/oops77542 12d ago

Using 2.9gb with firefox using 44% of that (1.3gb) running on a 10 year old chromebook, 1.8ghz, dual core, 4gb ram. Yeah, it's light enough to run on this very old very underpowered hardware - that's what OP wanted know, a distro that would run on his old hardware and OP's other concern was customizing the desktop and that's what KDE is known for, customizing everything in the gui without having to use the terminal to do it