I intent to dust off an old Asus laptop to start running Linux again,I ran Mint Cinnamon on it years ago and it ran very smoothly,my question is are the latest Linux full versions still pretty light on older systems or are the more modern OS now heavier ?. The laptop specs are AMD Brazos 1.65Ghz dual core,6 GB Ram and spins a HDD. I am thinking of trying Zorin as during my reviews of Linux this one seemed to be the most Windows like,but I'm not sure if I can run the full core version or go for the lite edition with the specs of the laptop. Or is Mint Cinnamon still a smooth OS system to run ?.
RAM level is good but there's a post in the Mint forum for your laptop model about it being slow even after installing additional ATI drivers. Personally I would look at Zorin Lite although you can get a rough idea about performance by trying several distos as a live session from USB.
Thanks,do you have a link to that post regarding the CPU, I have searched a few key words but didn't find anything regarding a slow system. Since my original post I went ahead and installed Zorin OS and so far so good,very nice layout and seems to run fine.
The system referenced does have less RAM but overall you will certainly be better off with what you have installed now. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=137524
