Apr 1, 2016 7:51 am PDT
Before I post a link to an article, I always check the date. The article is, as seen above, very old and barely any bad points mentioned are still valid in 2021.
P.S.: Perhaps it also has a meaning, that it was posted on April 1st…
Will look a bit deeper for you - I was a bit short of time…
The hook is still the same as it ever was…
Follow the money… Not that charitable jive 
@Andy2 I actually did read the review and to me, it looks fair and professionally written. The issues, the author points out, seem to be a bit more than little annoyances. To name issues like stalling programs in reviews is of paramount importance to developers: Often enough, a small patch can fix these things.
However, this doesn’t invalidate the fact that most newcomers to Linux will start their experience with Ubuntu or one of its derivatives, often Mint. Therefore, I stand with my position that it makes sense to feature those distributions prominently on this discussion board.
As far as your devastating review of Aquil Roshan’s itsFOSS article goes, I won’t discuss it as I haven’t tried enough distributions deeply enough to offer a truly founded opinion. As I stated on earlier occasions: When something works for me, I stick with it. My workhorse distribution has been Kubuntu for the last ten years or so, and I am still happy with it, without claiming that it were the best distribution ever. Even though I am also quite happy with the Garuda installation on my laptop, I don’t see myself replacing my desktop OS any time soon: If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
I reckon that you do a fine job pointing out that there are well-designed alternatives to Ubuntu and Mint, but I cannot overlook the great job that their respective developers have done in order to ease previous users of closed source operating systems the step into the open source world. That’s why I go ballistic when somebody tries to denigrate their efforts. Being a Linux user for 20 years and an IT-professional/developer for almost as long, I know how far we got in terms of everyday usability and ease of administration in these years and how much work went into these achievements without the backing and resources of multi-billion-dollar companies.
You say, the statement Linux Mint performs fine with older hardware was a joke. I don’t think so. I reckon that different generations have different notions of what qualifies as older hardware. For a 23 years old student, a computer from 2015 qualifies as old whilst for you and me with a couple more decades lived, it is a crisp and modern device.
Regarding the MS/Canonical deal, I can’t say much. I haven’t looked into the details and I don’t use Windows anyway. If I had to, for professional reasons, I always used the Cygwin environment to have the GNU tools at hand and especially the X-Server for remote work on Linux machines, so it simply wouldn’t occur to me to install Ubuntu under Windows.
Still, I fully understand Canonical’s interest to put food on the table of their employees.
Hey @Mina very good response - well intentioned and softly spoken too. I am quite happy to leave it at that - we just disagree - fine.
What I can’t understand is your apparent lack of understanding of the simple data in my test posts - #136 Mint performance on old hardware “look at those CPU cores running at 62% just watching the same video in the same tab page as before - that’s 220% more than Trisquel…” If you look at the CPU chart you can even see them peaking at 100% hence my laughter at it’sFOSS quote “Performs great with older hardware” what a joke… and the RAM usage increase also. Perfect recipe for life in the slow lane - even at 70 years of age I still like fast and snappy hence my recommendations for any version of Ttrisquel. 
Is there anything stable out there that is faster I would be glad to know - thanks…???
Regarding age of hardware I have now also installed Trisquel v9 on my fairly modern power user quad core Dell E6420 and conducted the same tests which of course confirm I am still in the fast lane in my Radical on my way to “broke the Nürburgring Nordschleife track record with a time of 6 minutes 48 seconds driven by Michael Vergers. Remarkably, the record lap was done on the same set of tires that were used to drive the car from factory in England to the track in Germany.” I have helped the Radical team and the Trisquel team of Spanish students inspired by Richard Stallman.
Trisquel do not operate out of an IOM - Isle of Man tax haven and are quite strapped for cash though grants and donations do help.
So this belief or distraction over hardware age - two decades - is just plain nonsense SFAIK.
Not mentioning the dreadful SNAP issue with ubuntu - the huge Elephant in the room is that Msoft is Closed Source software that infects your devices. You would have thought it’sFOSS would have got right behind the gnulinux project and the FsF principles - but no; they promote the direction of closed source commercial spyware…!
Before all the Fanboys and groupthink leap in - please check out the four basic freedoms first and check if it applies to ubuntu or mint for that matter.
Would you buy a new car with so many known faults… 
Please ALL; do take EXTRA care to stay safe… 
regards - Lone Voice 
Hi to all and especially to @easyt50 Howard (as he so kindly asked): 
Yesterday I did it, I really did it. I finally did a fresh/clean install as I didn´t want to wait until next April.
I opted for Lubuntu once again. 
So I am on Lubuntu 20.04.1 LTS now.
Installation went well. It was done in about 20 mins. After that: updates of course.
Those consumed about 15 mins. So all in all everything went very fast indeed.
Lubuntu 20.04.1 runs smoothly as far as I can say and it´s still very lightweight. 
Some minor issues (not so minor to me) are still giving me some headache though. 
But thanks so much to all of you 
for your great help and advice.
It´s so much appreciated.
Many greetings.
Rosika
I’d rather say: Thank you for giving us the welcome pretext to engage in this lovely discussion!
Hi Mina,
thanks so much for your kind words. 
I´ve certainly been enjoying the discussion as much as you have.
As for those issues: it may very well be that I´ll turn to you all for help once again if I can´t resolve them on my own.
In that case I´ll open up a new thread.
I hope you won´t mind.
Thanks again and many greetings.
Rosika
I think, I speak for every regular visitor of this forum when I say: Any person as lovely and polite as you will always find help here, as long as it doesn’t exceed our respective or collective knowledge.
Hi @Mina,
thank you so much for your kind words. I feel very honored.
So I take the liberty of posting a new thread here:
Many greetings.
Rosika
On
DELL Latitude e4310
and
HP p6506f
and
DELL Latitude D830
I have tried to install both
parabola-dual-openrc-lxde-2020.08.03-netinstall.iso
and
parabola-x86_64-systemd-lxde-2019.06-pre-complete.ixi.
And the first thing I get is :
This computer does not satisfy some of the recommended requirements for installing Parabola.
Well, that is very polite.
But is it notifying/enlightening me that it can do better than MS without helping to solve the problem ?
YES, it tells me that I have to comply to the trend.
PITA
Any reason why you chose Parabola? Any reason why not try Zorin OS Lite?
Good question: I am trying them all ; is my best answer.
I did try Zorin-OS-15.3-Core-64-bit.iso
and it was ok
please see my post dated 4 days ago
I tried the second one (2019.06) and the live version worked fine. I didn’t try to install it, preferring to stay with more up-to-date distros. If Zorin works for you, I’d stay with that. Otherwise, experiment away! That’s part of the fun of Linux.
Another reason is that Parabola is within this list
oh, a little over a year or two, I think. and here it is 2013, haha.
Anyway I’ve tried a lot of Distros lately and ended up with Triquel. My hardware is running, little movement in the system- just how I like it. The only thing I had to install is the AMD graphics driver.
Prepare for being mentioned a million times and being spammed with PMs the whole time. 
Hi all,
I know this is a rather olde thread, but I just wonder why nobody mentioned OpenSuse here?? You have Leap as stable release and Tumbleweed as rolling release. I compared Linux Mint 20.1 with both of them and Mint was tausing more memory then both of them. I was quite surprised as I would have thought that OpenSuse with KDE is very ressource hungry, but it does not seem to be. Leap 15.2 was taking least memory on my virtual machines out of these 3 distributions.
But I must say that i like Mint for its simplicity… 
This is actually not true. There have been several mentions of OpenSuse. If you carefully read through the thread, you’ll find them.
Just to repeat what I said on other occasions: For enterprises, OpenSuse would be my prime candidate. However, I personally find yast2 as configuration tool to be too old-fashioned for an average private user. RPM packages are often not as easily available as, say, deb packages. This makes software installation and system maintenance slightly more difficult than in Ubuntu/Debian or even Arch based distributions.
Despite currently using primarily Kubuntu (and Garuda), I know the distribution pretty well: My first distribution ever was Suse from CDs in 90s and I have used Suse/OpenSuse privately and in corporate settings quite extensively.
Today, it wouldn’t be my first choice for home use, but it is certainly technically excellent.
Hi Mina,
Sorry, I must have overread it…
Yes , I also had some trials with Suse in the 90s…
And I agree I find the package management in Mint far simpler…
I am waiting for Leap 15.3 to have another try because I think it will be very stabel as it should share the same basis as SLE…Let’s give it a try again 