My computer is an old horse - it has 1.8Ghz dual core (Core2) and 4GB RAM, and Cinnamon runs great on it. So no worries really. That's a good thing about Linux, there's so much less bloat that things just run way faster than on Windows.
YAFU wrote:
It is a curious thing that most distros we have recommended are based on the "evil Ubuntu" or uses it's repositories.
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
The evil parts of Ubuntu are mostly in the interface, Unity (at least for now... Mir is a horrible idea). And the software in the repositories is at least 90% not made by Ubuntu either. I like to look at it like, Mint (and maybe other derivatives, like Kubuntu or Lubuntu) really just take the good parts of Ubuntu and remove all the stupidity.
ofnuts wrote:
All distros are based on the same code... What makes a distro is the compromise between "leading-edge-ness" and stability.
Well, not exactly. The kernel is largely the same (apart from distro-specific patches), the toolchain and userland tools are largely the same - although even there are some differences now, eg. systemd/sysvinit/upstart - but the most differences come from different package management schemes, whether they use apt or rpm or something else, and the software selection. So it's not exactly a one-dimensional spectrum.