Either look like they'd be ok (both have or are lightweight desktop
experiences), to me it would depend on where you think you'll be more
comfortable with getting help with questions. OpenELEC is another
distribution (I'd heard of it before, but that doesn't matter too much
as there's so many) but it's also light weight and probably would also
work well on an older machine. You'd use it instead of another
distribution, or try it from a USB key - I'd say if it provides the
device support already integrated and you don't want to tinker to get it
to work on another distro then it's easiest to use it. OpenELEC is
focused on being a media centre device so may not have all the features
or apps of a full distribution built in, but should excel as a media device.
On 2018-07-29 12:00 PM, Winterlight wrote:
Cool..thanks! I was thinking of Elementary OS... or maybe Mint64
...what do you think? I have a SiliconDust tuner that I would like to
use. It does support Kodi with open Elec for Linux but I don't know
what that is... a distribution or an app.
At 11:24 AM 7/29/2018, you wrote:
Short answer is yes it looks like the XOrg radeon driver
(https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Radeon/) has full support for the
X1400 graphics card, out of the box on most distributions. I'd be
tempted to run something like Xubuntu or Lubuntu on it as both use a
lighter-weight desktop (Xfce or LXQt) than KDE or Gnome that are in
the standard distributions. They're both still Debian/Ubuntu based so
if you're not familiar with Linux you can get help on it relatively
easily by searching as most Ubuntu-based solutions will work.
On 2018-07-29 10:13 AM, Winterlight wrote:
I own a old T60 Thinkpad circa 2007 that still works well. I bought
it on Ebay used for not much money a long time ago. The only upgrade
I did was to install an old small SSD in it. The T60 has a chipset
that only handles 3GB of RAM because it's native OS is XP. In it's
day it was considered high end. A large wide screen, 2.2 dual core
with ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1400.
>
 The ATI video is now a problem. The ATI video card creates a
problem when it comes to OS upgrades because there is absolutely no
drivers for it in Win7 and above. All you can get is generic MS
video card driver which kills a lot of the usefulness of the laptop.
If it wasn't for the video card I could update the OS and find a use
for it. I am thinking about wiping the drive and installing some
flavor of Linux...would Linux have better support for the ATI card ?
