I bought this computer used for too much. It appeared to work but when I got it Home it was obvious it couldn’t run the Win 10 someone had installed on it. They upgraded the memory to 6 gigs. I wanted to do image editing and some editing of YouTube videos. I installed Ubuntu Studio, but that doesn’t run that well either. So what would be the best distribution to put on this? I think I have to give up on any movie editing. I’m trying Manjaro as a live USB because I saw a write up on it. I’m running the lighter weight XFCE. Any suggestions would be welcome. I guess I at least want to run Gimp on it.
- I would recommend at least 12GB for YouTube video editing.
- Use an extremely lightweight OS, install ONLY the video editing software. This is the best you can do, in your case.
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Choose native PC BIOS or Native PC UEFI, depending on your machine. Then, as pointed out in #2, install ONLY the video editing software and LXQt desktop environment. That is what I would do, if I were you.
I think this machines capacity is 6 gig that it has already. I have an old Xp machine with a lot less memory and does the job in windows movie maker. That does 1080p that matches what I have for equipment. I will check out your solution thoroughly.
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