My Desktop runs on Win 10 Professional:
Dell desktop has Viiv Dual Core E6400(2.13 GHz, 1066 MHz 2MB), RAM upgraded to 6GB
HDD 640GB (2x320GB) Serial ATA Dual HDD Config. Stripe Raid 0.
It was bought in 2007.
Failed Nvidia graphics card had been replaced around 2010.
My option to install Win 11 is not available.
Can I run the latest Ubuntu OS that will get regular security updates?
I am not a computer savvy.
Please bear with me and my questions.
Thanking you
A device I use with Quality Assurance testing, mostly for install testing I list as
hp dc7700 (c2d-e6230, 7gb, amd/ati rv610/radeon hd2400 pro/xt)
ie. it’s a Intel Core2Duo CPU e6230 (not the original CPU) with RAM also upgraded, and that device runs all releases of Ubuntu up to the most recent released this week; ie. Ubuntu 25.04.
You are not specific with graphics hardware though, and I have changed the graphics card in that specific hp.dc7700 box 3 times in recent years, as I use that box mostly for install testing, and didn’t want to deal with graphics configuration issues for each install test.
I would consider what graphics you have; you mention a failed card that was replaced in 2010, but don’t specify what the replacement was; as that is somewhat critical.
One of my prior cards in my example hp.dc7700 box was an nvidia quadro nvs 290 which I considered a time waster for me, so I swapped that graphics.card with another box (the nvidia card is now in a dell optiplex 755; with c2d-e8300 cpu, so similar type hardware anyway)
To get hardware details, I tend to use the program lshw, a tool that will list-hardware. To limit results to display details, I’d use
sudo lshw -C display
which can be run from a live system (ie. without install, booting a system from thumb-drive for exploration, before you decide to change anything).
I’ll provide a link that maybe useful on live testing, or Trying it before installing
Personally, I’d probably install a lighter flavor desktop, rather then GNOME, but what your preferences are, and what apps you’ll use I’d also use to decide what will be best for you, and I don’t know what that would be (ie. I’m just happier using a different desktop to the default GNOME usually, but its sort of like what flavor ice-cream we like most; my favorite may not be your favorite)
Are you familiar with running a “Try Ubuntu” live session to determine the compatibility of your PC with Ubuntu or an Ubuntu flavour?
More info via these links:-
Flavours
Make a bootable usb with Rufus (Windows App)
Based on your PC info, I would suggest that you try Lubuntu 24.04 or Xubuntu 24.04
Hello
May I first thank you for your reply.
The replacement Graphics card details as follows:
PNY XLR8 GeForce 250 GF-GTS 250 1GB DDR3
Do you really want RAID 0? That is for performance with older hard drives, but provides no backup. If one drive fails you lose all data on both drives. Often used on servers where daily backup is the standard or game systems, where no data needs to be kept. Now SSD provide performance.
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-features/data-recovery-tales-raid-is-not-backup/
If dual booting with Windows, it will be BIOS boot with old MBR partitioning. If removing Windows & breaking RAID, so you have two drives, better to use newer gpt partitioning.
My old laptop from 2006 had only 1.5GB of RAM. Ubuntu would not even install, server version did install. I was bit surprised Kubuntu did install but with old HDD, was a bit slow. Found my external SSD with full install of Kubuntu worked well, just needed a BIOS grub boot stanza on HDD to boot SSD.