Several years (7 or 8) ago, I bought a cheap netbook - a Packard Bell Dot S. It is based on an Intel Atom N570 processor with 2Gb of RAM and a 250Gb hard drive. It originally came with Windows 7, and worked acceptably for a few months, before slowing down to a crawl, and was put aside. Later I updated it to Windows 10, which proved to be even slower, and it was put aside again.
With time on my hands, with Coronavirus lockdown, and because the netbook hardware is really very sturdy, I thought I would see if I could make it usable again. So, I downloaded Lubuntu from my PC onto a memory stick, and installed it on the Dot S. Really very striaghtforward (barring the program which copies the .ISO onto the memory stick, which took four or five goes before it copied the file successfully). The result is a really good netbook, which I can use to surf the Internet and organise my digital photos.It even connects to my network printer, and has a word processor and spreadsheet application.
Good use of a couple of hours.
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Success with an old netbook
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Re: Success with an old netbook
Bminusrob wrote:Really very striaghtforward (barring the program which copies the .ISO onto the memory stick, which took four or five goes before it copied the file successfully).
It is a real pain doing that from Windows. With Lubuntu, Xfburn will do the job very easily. Abiword and Gnumeric are both rubbish. LibreOffice is much better.
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