I have been wanting to take an old desktop or laptop and give Linux a try, thanks for this article as it gives me that inspiration to finally get around and give it a try!!!
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I have been wanting to take an old desktop or laptop and give Linux a try, thanks for this article as it gives me that inspiration to finally get around and give it a try!!!
If you don't already have one you could pick up a really cheap laptop. Otherwise just use a live USB and boot on your existing machine if you just want to give them a try. It's only booting from the USB so it won't change anything on your HDD.
Linux has many options - freedom to choose, which is great but beginner gets overwhelmed with the choices. There are over 100 Linux flavors to choose from but even if you focus on say first 10-20 each comes with many different desktop and windows managers such as KDE, Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon, Xfce...
If your computers are older & slower, you want to choose lighter desktop manager such as Xfce that is lighter on resources. If say Mint Xfce is still to slow and lagy, check out Antix full:
http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-17/FAQ/index.html
https://antixlinux.com
I'm running it on one slow, 32 bit netbook and it runs great