Good day

I would please like to ask for suggestions for first time installation of linux on an old pc that has recently come into my possession

It is

Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz (2 cpu) 2 Gb Ram 1Tb hardrive Onboard graphics 128 mb

I have been looking at Mint and I am assuming that the Xfce Edition would probably be the smarter choice, but I am curious to know if I could use something like Cinnamon Edition and will it run smoothly hitting at the minimum spec of 2Gb RAM. Is their other alternatives that provide a good exprience for the limited resources as I decide to take the plunge?

  • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Sounds like you have the English keyboard layout set and expect German.
    This should be changeable somewhere in Xfce’s settings.

    • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Thanks I will have a look at it

      Edit Exactly as you said, the language prompt that I thought as default language was the prompt for “keyboard language” during installation

      Thanks again for the help

      • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        The language you set during installation sets the environment variable LANG which is picked up by the desktop environment to set keyboard language, date format and a few other things.

        • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          The more I know, did throw me off though and changed the keyboard setting to US and haven’t had issues. At least all the other information will be to my liking so that is a happy accident at least.

          Appreciate the information, thank you