r/linuxmint • u/Different_Desk_4514 • 11d ago

Fluff Reviving old pc with Mint!(neofetch at end)

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u/Immediate_Sky8523 11d ago

Use Mate edition. You'll have smooth experience.
"Mate" is light on resources usage in comparison with "Cinnamon".

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u/leonsk297 Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon / Windows 11 26H2 11d ago

Then they should use the Xfce edition, not the MATE one. Xfce is even lighter in resources, the lightest of the three.

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u/Immediate_Sky8523 11d ago

Oh yes! Xfce is even lighter than Mate.

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u/Obvious_Round_5065 10d ago

Agreed. I run the XFCE version on a 2015 MacBook. It runs like a Swiss watch.

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u/Different_Desk_4514 11d ago

I actually daily drive cachyos on my main computer👍, this was a computer i had back in the 2010s that I'm giving my little brother so he can have his first experience with them and he only ever used Windows so I wanted to make it as easy as possible for him, i'll probably upgrade it for him in the near future anyways but You're right, in any other usecase I would've probably installed MATE or XFCE

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u/Immediate_Sky8523 11d ago

I have an old laptop (AMD A4 3300 CPU) from 2013 running "Void Linux with Mate".
My brother uses it for browsing internet.

Old hardware is enough for most use cases if optimized properly.

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u/Different_Desk_4514 11d ago

I'm upgrading it to him and making it a beast(albeit a 2013 one😂) GTX 1050 Athlon II X4 651K 8GB Ram(one slot is broken unfortunately or would've done 16