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Upgrading on an old computer

Asked by Moshe Caspi

It looks like I already made a slight mistake and installed Lubuntu 15.04 on a old computer (AMD K7 cpu) which runs a bit slow. I am considering upgrading to the next LTS version. How hard do you think will this upgrade affect my computer?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You will need to upgrade to 15.10 then to 16.04 LTS

This will take a lot of data and a lot of time.

I suggest you grab the ISO for the Alpha release and do a clean install, wiping the standing OS off the system.

I'd also suggest you use either Xubuntu or Lubuntu to free up more resources for applications (as they us a lighter DE than Gnome).

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Moshe Caspi (mcaspi12) said : 		#2

Thanks for the info. I am aware of the upgrade procedure I wanted to know
more about the difference in spped that my system will work comapred to
15.04 as my computer is a bit old. How "bad" will it be compared to now.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

I would expect to see more of a difference in speed between the different variants of X/L/Ubuntu and not between the different releases 15.04/15.10/16.04 of the same variant.

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