When I started out, I used red hat, Suse linux, and then finally I jumped to Ubuntu, when they killed gnome and rolled out their new GUI later, I switched to Ubuntu Mate, with xfce alternatively installed. And then later came MINT. Which is based on ubuntu anyway. Source: 6 months ago

Prepare a blank USB stick with a copy of Ubuntu (write the ISO to the USB stick with Rufus). Source: 6 months ago

Ubuntu MATE (simple, well maintained, has the Ubuntu ecosystem support and should work well). Source: 11 months ago

Linux Mint has its advantages, but your title doesn't make sense when there's Ubuntu MATE. Source: about 1 year ago

(btw: since the PC is older I would reccommend Ubuntu Mate or Xubuntu as those come with a lighter Desktop). Source: about 1 year ago

If you're still having trouble, maybe give another distribution a spin, I actually recommend Intel's Clear Linux (they developed your CPU ;) ) and installing the workstation spin of it. It's very performant. It differs from traditional distributions but is probably a good way to get into learning about containers, running everything sandboxed as a flatpak etc : https://clearlinux.org/. Source: 11 months ago

SerpentOS (and SolusOS, which is rebasing on SerpentOS) and Intel's Clear Linux are exploring other new technologies that anticipate the emerging Linux direction. Clear Linux is server-oriented, not desktop oriented. SerpentOS is not yet even in Beta. Source: 12 months ago

Yes, I need to deploy/install Rustdesk on my computer. Given that I currently rock a rather exotic distro (no, I am not willing to switch), the only promising venue seems to be installing Rustdesk atop Docker--as a Docker container, that is. Source: almost 1 year ago

Link for anyone interested in Clear Linux: https://clearlinux.org/ Had heard of Alpine and used it plenty for containers, yet hadn't heard of Clear Linux before. Nowadays I just use Ubuntu for my container images (due to the same environment as my dev machine which simplifies things for me), but there's also a lot of benefit and elegance in more lightweight alternatives. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Clear Linux - I really wanted to get this working because of the optimizations the Intel builds into their distro. I was able to install the latest desktop version, and as long as I used an external USB keyboard and mouse, I was able to use the system. However, I was never able to figure out how to properly build the patched kernel to support the Surface devices. If anyone wants to play around with Clear and their... Source: about 1 year ago