#ASUS X205TA recommended system

1 messages · Page 1 of 1 (latest)

mighty shuttle
#

I have this old netbook, that was given to my father and after some small fixes it was given to me. The main issue, however, is that it feels really slow and sometimes has issues playing video via Chrome (mainly on gogoanime, on Amazon Prime the playback even crashed and I had to reopen the video to continue watching) or running Spotify.

It has Windows 10 Home 32 bit installed, and I gave myself a thought about reinstalling the system, more likely switching to Linux. And when I watched LTT's video about switching to Linux I realised I'm not sure which one to get (too many options to select from a good one), It also had driver issues where second display (connected through micro HDMI/HDMI adapter and cable to TV) wouldn't work along with integrated touchpad and keyboard, which I fixed from the official ASUS website (touchpad issues to this day, closing and re-opening the laptop solves it)

Specs, from internet:

  • Intel Atom Z3735F
  • Intel HD Grraphics
  • 2GB RAM
  • 32GB eMMC memory

Main usage will be consuming online videos (browser/Amazon prime video) and playing music through Spotify, maybe some Discord calls on the travels, since I have my main PC.

What will be the system/distribution you would recommend to install on it.

And a side note, I'm not that really experienced with Linux, I know some stuff since my high school education, but that was some time ago and I never touched Linux since.

steep hornet
#

windows 8.1 or 7

#

But you can drop Bliss OS
However, it may work slowly with 2 GB of RAM

#

Or install Android 8 or 9

analog quartz
#

I would advise against installing unsupported and insecure operating systems and suggest Xubuntu if you want the best out of it without having to use an outdated and insecure option like old Windows or Android.

#

It isn't the world's best graphical interface but it'll give you more room for Chrome and the like than say... KDE or Gnome

mighty shuttle
#

Yeah, I want something never that has updates, I don't want to install any Windows on it, since I have only the installation Flash Disk only for Win 10 Pro

analog quartz
#

That never has updates?

mighty shuttle
#

Sorry, mistype

#

Newer, as new

#

Not never

analog quartz
#

Good.

mighty shuttle
#

English isn't my main language and in my native language "W" isn't used as much, if ever, sorry for that

#

Xubuntu is the one then?? That you would recommend??

analog quartz
#

I would if you're not a big Linux person but want something that'll give you the best out of pretty crap hardware

mighty shuttle
#

From what I can see it has requirement of 64 bit processor, and the one in the laptop is 32-bit

analog quartz
#

No, it's 64-bit.

#

The Z3735F

mighty shuttle
#

Imma boot up the laptop and check via dxdiag what shows up

analog quartz
#

You're just presently using a 32-bit operating system.

mighty shuttle
#

Oh, I see

#

I was mistaken that the system was 32-bit only

#

Until now I didn't realize it was 64-bit processor

#

Any issues with that?? Compared to the Xubuntu

#

As from what I remember, I worked only with Debian in school, so I am unaware about pros/cons of different Linux distributions

analog quartz
#

I'd probably just set it up with legacy boot anyways and just sidestep that

#

UEFI is mostly a nuisance on machines that old anyways

mighty shuttle
#

I know a little bit about what you're trying to say, but I haven't really dug too deep in the laptop, I don't think I've been into BIOS or anything on that, except the system

#

Or UEFI I think is the correct term

#

I'm not used to saying UEFI since my main PC uses BIOS, 2012 pre-built (I plan to build completely new PC this year, which will be a different task)

analog quartz
#

You'll know during setup if you're going to have to go and do stuff in the bios settings

mighty shuttle
#

I will wait for a while if someone else will recommend anything else, and make more research if it's even worth to switch system, since otherwise it's running fine, but really slow

#

But I will probably at least reinstall the system, to make sure there isn't anything that someone else set up, because from what I heard someone tried to repair the keyboard and opened it (I did also took the back cover off to check if there isn't any weirdness going on, and there we're few missing bolts)

#

Since I got to it when my dad's coworker bought it and tried to have it as main PC, and then after the update to Win 10 the keyboard and touchpad along with few different things stopped working, which I found was the issue of missing drivers for the chipset

#

And she gave it to him as she really doesn't understand tech side of thing (just a user)