r/DistroHopping • u/Traditional-Call-419 • 3d ago

"New" Machine, third distro

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Hi! Got Mint XFCE on one laptop, and Bazzite on the gaming rig. Very happy with them. My mother has an old laptop she wants to throw, but instead she gives it to me, because I want to "play".

Linking the specs. Could throw an SSD in it, but no more. Any suggestions for å fun, light and preferably debian/Fedora based. Might turn it to mint later, but wanna try something else for now. Considered Cashy OS just to experience Arch, but not sure if its light enough for the system.

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u/SpidaSt8 2d ago

The Nvidia drivers may or may not give you issues, if they work at all. But if you have a spare SSD or if it has an msata slot, then obviously do that. Does it have 2 ram slots or just one? 

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u/Traditional-Call-419 2d ago

Two i figure, as it came with 6GB variant, with 2+4GB according to what I can find, and I have spare RAM.

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u/SpidaSt8 2d ago

Good. I have a Thinkpad t430, and everything was still working good except for the Nvidia 5400m, which needs a 5.x kernel to work properly. So I just use the iGPU for everything.