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I have a 6/7 year old Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop which came with: 1GB DDR RAM, 120GB HDD, (Dual core?) AMD Turion Processor, Windows Vista Home Premium which now boots extremely slowly.

I'd prefer to replace it with a light/full version of Ubuntu which runs fairly well. Any suggestions on which version of Ubuntu to install on it, and any GUI options (Kubuntu/Lubuntu) which would make it perform faster.

I would like to mention that I do use Scientific Linux and Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10 on a daily basis, but I have no knowledge of past versions and how well they would run on slower laptops.

Thank you in advance for any help and suggestions.

This is too broad and opinion based. As well, we've answered this question multiple times on the site. — Thomas Ward, Feb 02 '14 at 16:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '14 at 17:37

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Try a live CD version first. It will give you some idea of the performance.

answered Feb 02 '14 at 17:37

Humpity

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '14 at 17:58

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I've found Xubuntu to be the fastest of the buntu distros on my dell mini 10v.

answered Feb 02 '14 at 17:58

CLINT

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