Recently I’ve gave up Windows for Linux and installed Ubuntu with KDE Plasma desktop on my pc and laptop from 2007. It’s an i7 Intel processor with 8gb ddr ram so I thought it would be fine, but it seems quite sluggish. What distro could I use that would be faster and still fully functional? Thanks for your help in advance.

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    1 year ago

    My apologies, it’s only 4gb ram and I did overestimated the age as well. It’s i7-2630m processor, video is nvidia gt 540m.

    Based on another commenter’s advice I installed openSuse tumbleweed and it is quite snappy and I like it, but I’ve noticed that working terminal is different and since I’m transitioning from Windows and learning Linux I don’t want to learn two sets of commands. Decisions, decisions…

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      It’s i7-2630m processor

      I have sandybridge too)

      video is nvidia gt 540m.

      Maybe it will be useful to read on nouveau reclocking

      Based on another commenter’s advice I installed openSuse tumbleweed and it is quite snappy and I like it

      Yes, good stuff. I used it, worked well.

      Linux I don’t want to learn two sets of commands.

      Across POSIX-compatible systems commands are same, except system-specific like packet manager