have old pc and i am new to ubuntu

[joe103]

I have a 8 year old pc with windows xp on it . The pc has 3 gig celron cpu 2 gig of ram 256 agp 3d card an 160 gig hard drive. which version of ubuntu will work best on my pc.

[bapoumba]

Hello,
I'd go with lubuntu or xubuntu.

[Bashing-om]

joe103; Hi !

+1 on lubuntu, just 'cause i am prejudiced .

PAE, Physical Address Extension:
A guide for getting computers with older Pentium M processors to work with the latest Lubuntu;
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE

Now 14.04 Lubuntu has support for non-pae:
forcepae ->
info:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2211590

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lu...MinimalInstall

You asked

that is what I think

[mörgæs]

If it's only eight years old there's no PAE problem. Also all 3 GHz processors support PAE.

Joe, just install. No worries here.

[grahammechanical]

256 agp 3d card

256, is this the amount of memory of the graphics card? In my opinion, with Ubuntu Unity we might get by with 512MB but 1GB is better still.

[bapoumba]

256, is this the amount of memory of the graphics card? In my opinion, with Ubuntu Unity we might get by with 512MB but 1GB is better still.

I have 256MB here, Unity does run (no crashes) but is not usable. Everything hangs for ages or even get stuck. Not a surprise, but I thought I'd mention it.

[jdeca57]

I have 256MB here, Unity does run (no crashes) but is not usable. Everything hangs for ages or even get stuck. Not a surprise, but I thought I'd mention it.

Sometimes that's confusing. In an Oracle Virtualbox VM Ubuntu 14.04 works perfectly with 128 MB video memory allocated. It isn't exactly 3D or effects that you get, of course. But Dash, semitransparent, appears quickly. And by the way that machine has only 1280 MB internal memory.

[bapoumba]

Sometimes that's confusing. In an Oracle Virtualbox VM Ubuntu 14.04 works perfectly with 128 MB video memory allocated. It isn't exactly 3D or effects that you get, of course. But Dash, semitransparent, appears quickly. And by the way that machine has only 1280 MB internal memory.

IGB ram here. Dash comes up OK, but any action gets the machine to swap a lot, hence the hangs, greyed out apps, heavy disk access, and even heating. May be it could be tweaked, but I got to like lubuntu

[jdeca57]

IGB ram here. Dash comes up OK, but any action gets the machine to swap a lot, hence the hangs, greyed out apps, heavy disk access, and even heating. May be it could be tweaked, but I got to like lubuntu

No problems with Lubuntu, of course, but on the (VM) machine I'm using I started the openoffice writer, a terminal with htop and the firefox browser for a usage of 590 MB internal memory. No swap. So I added the java application freemind. 680 MB. A game? Battle of Wesnoth, 760 MB. No swap, the machine runs normal and fast.

[mörgæs]

I think we should let the debate rest for a while until original poster returns.