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Ive installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my Dell inspiron 1545 model (2010), purely for use as self hosted cloud storage server, but Ive been struggling to get the wifi to work ( I also tried installing virtualbox on it, but because my chip does not support virtualization i cannot use ubuntu on virtual box). I just want to know if ubuntu 20.04 will be able to run successfully on my older dell computer or am I wasting my time trying to set it up ? So far I cannot even pick up the wifi signal with the wifi router a meter away (but it does pick up my neighbor’s wifi for some reason). Im very new to ubuntu and would really appreciate some help.

ubnspian
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Short answer: yes.

As long as you have 4GiB RAM or more and a not-potato CPU, you should be okay as long as you don't try and use it as a massive server. If there is only a few clients connecting to it from time to time and not a massive workload, then yes - especially as a storage server, it ideally would be fine.

Not sure about the WiFi thing though, id suggest using ethernet if you can.

Edit: Ubuntu says the minimum specs are:

2 GHz dual core processor.
4 GiB RAM (system memory)
25 GB of hard-drive space (or USB stick, memory card or external drive but see LiveCD for an alternative approach)
VGA capable of 1024x768 screen resolution.

I looked up your laptop specs and found:

Processor: INTEL CORE 2 DUO CPU P7450.
Clock Speed: 2.13GHZ.
RAM: 4GB DDR2.
Hard Drive: 500GB.

If they are similar if not better, then yes you can.

Vasilisa
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