Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-26 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
Thanks Les, for your comprehensive reply. I think the take away will be to get the window manager to be as lean as poss. Kind regards On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, 5:43 pm Les Kitchen via luv-main, wrote: > [I'm replying to the original post, but I have seen the > subsequent traffic.] > > On Mon, Feb

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-26 Thread Les Kitchen via luv-main
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024, at 18:09, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote: > I wonder if you could do just as well with a USB-C to USB hub device > attaching a HDD to a mobile (or directly without a hub). > > The mobile will be so much faster. Good idea. I've done this. Doing it on a mobile phone

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan via luv-main
Hi, On 26/2/24 4:43 pm, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > The specs are here: > https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Ideapad-S10e.15950.0.html That link dates back to April 16, 2009 ... https://web.archive.org/web/20090416210118/http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Ideapad-S10e.15950.0.html

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-25 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Monday, 26 February 2024 13:20:58 AEDT Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in Europe > mainly to get photos off his camera SD card and into a suitably sized > ext, HDD, > > When I turned it on I found it had a Mageia OS (RPM) I have

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-25 Thread Les Kitchen via luv-main
[I'm replying to the original post, but I have seen the subsequent traffic.] On Mon, Feb 26, 2024, at 13:20, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in Europe > mainly to get photos off his camera SD card and into a suitably sized > ext,

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-25 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
On 26/2/24 15:04, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote: Hi, On 26/2/24 1:41 pm, Duncan Roe via luv-main wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 01:20:58PM +1100, luv-main wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in Europe mainly to get photos off his camera

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-25 Thread Andrew Voumard via luv-main
Hi Andrew, MX Linux 23.1 with Xfce has a low resource requirement has been completely stable for my use of it, and is very popular at the moment (so lots of info available if you run into issues). 23.2 is out now, but I haven't tried it yet. HTH Andrew On 26/02/2024 1:20 pm, Andrew Greig

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-25 Thread Nic Baxter via luv-main
On 26 February 2024 1:20:58 pm AEDT, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: >Hi All, > >I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in Europe mainly >to get photos off his camera SD card and into a suitably sized ext, HDD, > >When I turned it on I found it had a Mageia OS (RPM) I have

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan via luv-main
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 26/2/24 1:41 pm, Duncan Roe via luv-main wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 01:20:58PM +1100, luv-main wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in Europe mainly >> to get photos off his camera SD

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-25 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
Thanks Duncan, I'll see if I can get a USB iso. Andrew On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, 1:42 pm Duncan Roe via luv-main, wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 01:20:58PM +1100, luv-main wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in Europe > mainly > >

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

2024-02-25 Thread Duncan Roe via luv-main
Hi Andrew, On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 01:20:58PM +1100, luv-main wrote: > Hi All, > > I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in Europe mainly > to get photos off his camera SD card and into a suitably sized ext, HDD, > > When I turned it on I found it had a Mageia OS (RPM) I