Paul O’Brien talks to Clement Lefebvre, the project leader of Linux Mint, as the popular distribution continues to mature and improve with a new release All Linux Mint’s releases are supported for five years. There are many other options if you care to look, and the best part is that they're all free and as long.Linux Mint is based on the long-term releases of Ubuntu, with the 18.x versions underpinned by Xenial and version 19 using the latest Bionic base. They're both full-fledged OSs that can do anything a Windows or Mac OS computer can do, they look great and are very easy to use, and they will run very smoothly with only 4GB RAM.

While there are many Linux distributions, I'll mention Linux Mint and Zorin OS as lightweight and user-friendly operating systems. Giving new life to an old computer for non tech-savvy users.I did use Debian Sid, which works like a rolling distro in the. I use Debian Testing as my desktop distro, though, and have had no problems. * Straight-up Debian is not always recommended as a desktop distro. Not the biggest distrohopper on the planet, but I have been using GNU/Linux since around 2006 so I will throw my hat in the ring with some comments and answers I have seen to similar questions over the years. Ask HN: Rolling Release Distro, or LTS w/ Backports?.It's built off of Ubuntu so it's going to be stable and can tap into a lot of troubleshooting guides, but features the Cinnamon DE which will be familiar to Windows users.

Linux Mint with XFCE should be fine and work out of the box.įor most people, I'm going to recommend Linux Mint. I want to run Linux on my old computer - how?

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