What download if any should I use on an old Dell dimension B110? I believe it is a 32 bit machine. The old XP software is corrupted and I would like to try a desktop version of Ubuntu or something similar just for online brousing and video streaming. I would be a new/first time user.
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Your computer has an Intel Celeron D 325 processor which indeed only has a 32-bit instruction set. You can download a 32-bit installer image from the alternative downloads page under "Network installer". It's called a Network installer to distinguish it from the Live installer, which boots to a live Ubuntu installation, and because it loads its packages from the internet as it installs so it requires a network connection. The Live installer is no longer available for 32-bit Ubuntu.
https://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
You'll want the "i386" architecture, and then download the .iso file, which is around 50 MB.
Note: the .iso files are intended to be burned as images to a CD, but if you don't have a CD drive you can write it as a raw image to a USB stick and it should work as long as you can boot from USB devices, as it is a hybrid image. How you do this depends on your OS.
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To be honest, that was a pretty low end system. I have my doubts as to how well any flavor of Ubuntu may run on it. If you find it to be a poor experience, you may do better with something like Q4OS, which is really aimed at bringing modern software advancements to such low-end systems.
I'm impressed you've been able to keep it running this long.
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