[ale] [EXTERNAL] Linux on 6GB Dell notebook?

[Scott Plante]

Our regular waitress/bartender had a Windows laptop that was super-slow. It
was one of those underpowered sealed ones very hard to upgrade, and she
couldn't afford a new one. She was not technically adept, so I was a bit
worried about a regular Linux installation. It had 2GB RAM and a 30GB SSD.
I tried to re-install a fresh current Windows version, and it didn't have
the resources to even do the install. I ended up using this free packaging
of the open source Chromium OS (which is the basis of ChromeOS).

https://www.neverware.com/freedownload

It performed fairly well as long as not too many tabs were open, and did
what she needed it to do without a lot of help from me going forward.
ChromiumOS is basically a limited Linux distribution, of course. You might
consider it for this laptop.

Scott


On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 9:25 AM Allen Beddingfield via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> Do they really need 500GB?  If not, order one of the $19.99 120GB SSDs
> from Amazon, and slap that in there.  That's pretty much my go-to on every
> computer I touch these days that still has a spinning disk.  There are
> disassembly videos on Youtube for opening up pretty much any model out
> there.
> Allen B.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Neal Rhodes via Ale <
> ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2021 8:22 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Cc: neal at mnopltd.com
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ale] Linux on 6GB Dell notebook?
>
> So, Thanks for the advice on helping friend with virus scan on their 6gb
> Dell notebook.
>
> I think that got it to the point of occasionally running ok, but also
> often needing more than 6GB for Win 10, and starting to thrash.
>
> It's one of those Dells without a RAM door on the bottom.
>
> The recommendation from HL computer was to swap the drive with a 500GB
> SSD, and virus scan the new drive.  They wanted $260 for that.
>
> I'm seeing Walmart is peddling an HP I3 with 8GB RAM, 220GB SSD for $270
> this week.
>
> Which is actually a better proposition.  Friend's finances are limited.
>
> I'm debating telling him I'll give him $100 for the old notebook and
> reformat it for linux.   Likely Ubuntu.
>
> Guessing Ubuntu will run fine in 6GB.
>
> It's been a couple of years since I did that.  Are there new hurdles
> with doing a fresh install?  EUFI?  What about audio?  Audacity?
> TeamViewer? Ultimaker Cura?   Zoom?
>
> regards,
>
> Neal
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