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It seems the 'formal'requirement for Ubuntu 20 is a 1.8GHz dual core Celeron. For lightweight work (web browsing, file transfers, downloads) would a 1.6GHz dual processor be OK?

N0rbert
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sammynorth
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    Any version will be fine. – ChanganAuto Dec 09 '21 at 00:06
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    This is why the Ubuntu installer includes a risk-free "Try Ubuntu" environment: So you can test your hardware and workflow thoroughly before making any decisions. – user535733 Dec 09 '21 at 00:07
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    https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install (applies to all flavors of Ubuntu too); also note the 20 or year based products are different to the 20.04 or year.month products. Ubuntu Core 20 is a different system to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for example. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements will suggest your specs are unlikely to be a good match for Ubuntu Desktop (but you didn't provide RAM, video RAM etc) but flavors may still be good. – guiverc Dec 09 '21 at 00:13
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    Also note CPU celeron & marketing-speed are not good indications, eg. a celeron 2ghz I rarely used in QA-testing as the box was horrifically slow, worse than pentium 4, pentium M & others. A later c2d-t6570 was better, so get specific details & all details when you check the system requirements (eg. does your box have 3D Acceleration Capable Videocard with at least 256 MB ? etc ... the celeron box I mentioned didn't & it made a big difference! – guiverc Dec 09 '21 at 00:20
  • I used to use an all-in-one with these processors you mentioned here and still have it with 20.04, has a max RAM limit on 3GB, I can barely watch YouTube without HD. It's almost wasting time and electricity. Well, in your case Celeron N3050 consumes only 1/10 of Core2Duo E7500 then it's not much waste of electricity. But a lot slower than 12 year-old machine. It's still Okay but not encouraging. Buy something else if you can. – Sadaharu Wakisaka Dec 09 '21 at 00:47
  • Did you mean to write GHz? I don't think a 1.6 MHz CPU will work well with Ubuntu, if at all – cocomac Dec 09 '21 at 02:07
  • @sammynorth how much RAM do you have? Do you have SSD is this computer? It seems that you mean GHzs not MHzs, so I edited your question. Do you consider to run some flavor - like Lubuntu or MATE? – N0rbert Dec 09 '21 at 06:10

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