Can my old laptop with a Intel Atom N450 1.66 GHz run ubuntu without that much lag? It only has 1gb of ram which i feel might be an issue
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I am a bit financially strapped and received a Gateway GT5056 tower. The tower has an AMD dual core 64-bit processor in it. Will Ubuntu 12.04 run on this machine? I will not have any other application other than LibreOffice installed.
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I have a Windows XP system which has only 256 MB of ram, and unfortunately upgrading the RAM is not an option (it needs DDR, a DDR2 chip didn't fit and I'm not in town long enough to order one online). As you would expect, the system runs at the speed of molasses. It belongs to my 8-year-old nephew who'd love to be able to run basic programs, play flash games, etc. Is there anything I can do, short of adding more memory, to make it at least feel more responsive?  While Windows XP lists 128MB as the minimum recommended amount, I'm waiting 3-4 seconds for the start menu, and that is somewhat ridiculous.
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I have ordered a HP chrome book 14 with the tegra k1 processor. Am I able to run Ubuntu Linux on this processor? I had a look at other threads and could not find the answer I was looking for. I know it runs on the Intel haswell processors but I'm unsure of the architechure of the tegra chip. Any help appreciated!
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I have a dell laptop with 4GB of ram and 500GB of storage.I just finished installing windows 8.1 32bit version, which utilizes 3GB of ram.  Can I install and run Ubuntu to utilize that unusable portion of Ram.Then how?  Thanks in advance
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Is it possible to install Ubuntu on a Chromebook? If so, what are the minimum system requirements? Will Ubuntu preform as well on the Chromebook as on a Windows laptop?
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I was reading through the hardware requirements of  and it says:     1 GB of RAM (1.5 GB if running on a virtual machine)   Why does running on a VM require more resources?
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Is the current version of Ubuntu usable on a PPC mac?  I've got a "lamp shade" mac from 2003 that I'd like to recycle into my first Linux computer.  I'm not a programmer.  So it appeals to me that Ubuntu is a download/upload kind of thing.  Apple iMac G4 1.25GHz  Any suggestions?
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I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu Desktop, but I don't know what flavor is the best for my system. What are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements? What kind of CPU? How much memory? Should I have Hardware Acceleration? What flavor should I use?  This is an attempt of a canonical answer. My answers have the &quot;official  requirements&quot;, the recommended are a mix of official sources and opinion based (along with the answer it's told the source). You can comment or edit if you feel that the information is obsolete or incomplete. It is a good rule of thumb that any system capable of running Windows Vista, 7, 8, x86 (Intel) OS X will almost always be a lot faster with any Ubuntu flavor even if they are lower-spec than described below.
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I want to do a small computer just for internet browsing. I dont want to load a desktop environment to keep RAM, CPU and GPU ussage as low as possible. The computer is going to run on a ARM CPU. I dont care with Distro I use, I thought about good old plain Debian.
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I would like to run Ubuntu on my new Thinkpad E470. Is Nvidia Optimus supported? It used to be that you would have to run the proprietary drivers with the dGPU enabled always instead of using the iGPU. Has the situation improved, especially regarding battery life? If possible I would just run with the iGPU as I don't plan to do any gaming. Would I just refrain from installing the proprietary driver to achieve this?
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I just got my Asus EEE PC 1015PEM netbook with Windows 7 starter... obviously, I'd like to install Ubuntu (not sure yet if I'd like to dual boot or completely remove win7).  Anyway, I never had a netbook before. I know about unity but heard some bad stuff about it, so I wonder if I might be better sticking to the desktop edition. What do you think? any recommendations?  Also, should I use the 32 bit or 64 bit version?
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I have a DELL OPTIPLEX GX620 with no OS and would like to try Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it.  Can I do this?
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According to  its supported platforms are:   Ubuntu 14.04 Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 18.04   Is there any way to install it on a machine running Ubuntu 19.04?
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I'm downloading both versions of Ubuntu 12.04 at this moment. I'd like to install AMD64 on my portable, even though it's an Intel machine. Is there a website (or another way) where I can check compatibility?  Acer Aspire 5745G-724G50Mnks, Intel i7 with 4Gb RAM
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Can every CPU (in my case a Intel i7 890) install both of them ? Amd64 and i386 ? I would like to install Ubuntu 64bit. So what is the right download ?
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Okay my question is that, I want to run a heavy application, on a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) with just 2 GB RAM (Windows 7 32Bit Host has 4 GB, 3.5 GB effective). Initially I thought of installing Ubuntu Server 12.04.1, which doesn't come with a GUI, so I thought it would be efficient in performance, but I have only Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop.  My question is, is it possible to remove the GUI parts in Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop (Not Server), keeping only the core OS, after installation in a virtual machine?   Or, is there anyway to improve the performance of the OS?  If you need more information, I am ready to provide.  I don't want the GUI or anything, even a small terminal window is fine for me, I can access files through FTP.
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I want to install Ubuntu, with the minimal packages for web browsing. Installation should be under 2GB.  Any ideas? Where can I start?