I don’t where to start I have 25.05 on three of my devices wondering if I can find a cheap GPU for my desktop due windows 10 eol. Also hate e-waste if I can prevent it. My dad loves to rip CDs on his cloud. I found out buy testing and watching YouTube videos about onedrive under ms365. So I would like to continue riping CDs. Under Linux over windows 10 to prep it’s last eol. I have only 2 devices running windows 11. Just want the minimum requirements. Sadly my gt710 doesn’t support UEFI only CSM. Plus my sapphire R7 250 2gb refuse to load up. I have a rtx 3060 12 GB could use it but I think it’s over kill.
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I am sorry I am new to this. I have installed Ubuntu in the past. I look that stuff up not very demanding needs.
If you post the make and model plus full specifications for the laptops in question, it will be much easier for users to offer suggestions about the best options.
For example, on older laptops it is often better to install one of the flavours, like Lubuntu.
Or another example, I have an old 1GB Intel Atom netbook which happily runs Bodhi Linux.
Re-purposing older machines is an excellent way to avoid e-waste and also experiment with various Linux distros.
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I agree I have an old latitude d630 have latest version of Ubuntu 25.04 and it have graphic issues but doesn’t bother me. It has 8 GB of ram. I use it to communicate with a network switch via putty.
Best way, to determine if your hardware is supported, is to download and “burn” a Live ISO, then boot … without installing … from Live ISO on each individual machine.
You won’t have the real speed, but you will be able to prove-in the full capability/support offered to each machine with that Ubuntu Live ISO.
If something doesn’t work straight off, that doesn’t automatically mean that it can’t be made do work with Ubuntu.
It will also minimize your need for new hardware.
Once you’ve confirmed that your hardware can work (or has been updated with more RAM if necessary) then you can come back to discuss the best implementation for configuring with either
- single-boot Linux, or
- dual-boot Linux + Windows
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