I installed Ubuntu 18.04 from a USB using Rufus onto my old Dell from 2006 (CPU: Intel Pentium 4 RAM: 1 GB). I've booted it from the BIOS successfully and I've selected "Try Ubuntu", but once I'm on the desktop it runs extremely slow and it's borderline frozen. The mouse only moves ~90 seconds and it's too slow to actually coordinate the mouse onto any desktop icons. The system time has also only moved one minute despite the PC running for over an hour. Since this renders the computer basically useless what can I do to fix this? Unfortunately, I'm not exactly a pro at this (first time using Linux) but thanks for any help.
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If youre trying vanilla Ubuntu with the gnome desktop, then that Pentium 4 with 2gb of memory is the cause of your issue. I have the GX620 myself, and it STRUGGLES VERY hard to run the gnome DE, even with an aftermarket gpu installed. Its the effects and the compositing on the Gnome desktop youre using thats making your experience bad. I suggest you try out Xubuntu. It will run pretty well, at least way better, than the vanilla Ubuntu. If you want, I can help walk you through this. Im sort of new myself, so I'm new user friendly :) Cheers!
Edit: I see that your post says that you have only 1gb of memory now, my apologies. I would suggest using Lubuntu or Xubuntu. Again, my offer is still open to help you transition into the beautiful ecosystem of GNU/Linux!
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Put an SSD in it and it will run a lot faster. Most older machines come with HDDs which are very slow. You'll find well priced 128 and 256gb ssd drives on amazon. If you mobo doesn't support SATA then get a converter ;)
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