Switch to Ubuntu or shouldnt?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
ghost878

ghost878

Honorable
Nov 12, 2013
188
0
10,760
I'm currently using win7 x32..on my old p4 ht..2gb ram...
whenever i play movies 720p (pc usage 98%)sometimes d video starts to scramble( and audio tears apart)...now ive read about ubuntu recently that its lighter than win7...so if i would switch to ubuntu will d p4 system play 720p ..and if then plz explain d drivers from wer to get
 
Solution
E
Ghost, I am going to keep it REAL for you. You need to take a different approach. Now I am a master at squeezing every ounce of usability out of my hardware investment and I still have a few P4 machines in my home network but they are primarily using BSD or setup as NAS servers.

I will also have to take my hat off to you for pusing win7 down to a p4. The best that I can tolerate is a M that has a little more kick but that is about it.

Ubuntu would be a little too heavy for your P4. Now there are a lot of distros out there but I would suggest that you try one of the Linux Mint distros. Mint is based on Ubuntu but it is cleaned up and it it lighter with a similar feel. I prefer Cinnamon.

Now if you have a few extra...
Sort by date Sort by votes
E

Eunix

Distinguished
Feb 14, 2009
8
0
18,520
Ghost, I am going to keep it REAL for you. You need to take a different approach. Now I am a master at squeezing every ounce of usability out of my hardware investment and I still have a few P4 machines in my home network but they are primarily using BSD or setup as NAS servers.

I will also have to take my hat off to you for pusing win7 down to a p4. The best that I can tolerate is a M that has a little more kick but that is about it.

Ubuntu would be a little too heavy for your P4. Now there are a lot of distros out there but I would suggest that you try one of the Linux Mint distros. Mint is based on Ubuntu but it is cleaned up and it it lighter with a similar feel. I prefer Cinnamon.

Now if you have a few extra bucks, I would suggest that you pick up an old Dell Latitude D630 which will get you to true dual core and is a solid machine. A T61P will also do and both machines you can go to 4Gb of ram.

You problem is that you have too much OS for that processor. I will dare not suggest that you back off to XP (obsolete) but you can go back down a couple of rev levels to Windows Server which will do a better job of background memory management.

Now the drivers part of your question will depend on your exact hardware and applications for your video codec.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
A

Aristotelian

Distinguished
Jun 21, 2012
579
0
19,160
Ubuntu's current mainstream distribution has the Unity desktop, which uses special effects that will give you trouble on an older machine. You would be better off with LUbuntu, which has most of Ubuntu's functionality but a more lightweight desktop. (Linux Mint's LXDE version would also be good). However, I would think both will still give you trouble with any kind of modern gaming. Plus you will not be able to play most of your Windows-based games in Linux, so most people do not use Linux for gaming.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
ghost878

ghost878

Honorable
Nov 12, 2013
188
0
10,760


i know any recent OS will be a burden for a p4 but i just want it to play 720p in smooth fashion..dont know why it dosent when it can give 21fps in crysis2 (ati 5450)...since i spaced up one of my drives i will try ubuntu(for its freshness)...regarding linuxmint i installed 10.4 few months back but couldnt find d proper driver support so switched to win7 x64 (yes p4 ht has 64bit inst :p)...and the option of putting a few buks ..dosent help in my case as i just want to pull this pc for little time until my 4th gen pc arrives

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom