I have this old, super-cheap laptop: Lenovo E145, which I use as my travel and breakfast laptop. It has 8GB of RAM and a very weak CPU (AMD E1-2500 APU). Any modern mobile phone probably has more resources these days.
For surfing the web, checking mails, editing and uploading some fotos it is sufficient and I prefer using a laptop for this.
I used to run Xubuntu on it, but lately it had performance issues and all programs and actions were lagging very significantly. So I decided to reinstall the OS and try Lubuntu, since it should be even more lean.
I grabbed the current Lubuntu image (25.04 Plucky Puffin), created a bootable USB stick, and installed Lubuntu. So far, so good. And indeed, everything felt much smoother and faster.
But, as usual, there are some post-installation hiccups which needed a bit more tuning.
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