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I have acquired some old pcs. I want the newest Ubuntu OS on them.

I have downloaded Ubuntu desktop 18.04.3 desktop amd64.iso and used Rufus, ISO to usb, and cmd line to make a bootable usb on windows vista. None have worked.

The pc that I want to run Ubuntu on is a dell opitplex 760. It’s certainly running windows xp 2002 service pack 3, has 2g memory, 2.5ghz processor and 160gb hard drive. I believe it’s a 32 bit system but not sure.

I have also bought 3 usb sticks and none seem to work. I got the pc once to give me a grub error 15 code but now I can’t get it to show back up. I can restart the system and windows xp works every time.

Please help with the right download and the right settings to make a bootable usb for this system. I would like windows xp off and Ubuntu to take its place.

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There are many different Dell Optiplex 760 machines with different CPUs. If you have one with a 64-bit processor, just add RAM and you can run full-up Ubuntu. To find what you have, enter your service tag at the Dell PC Support Site, or open a terminal in Ubuntu 16.04 and run lscpu | grep Architecture

Without a 64-bit processor you will be limited in your choices when it comes to running full-up Ubuntu with the heavy GNOME3 desktop. However, Ubuntu also offers flavors with less demanding desktop environments which sill still run Ubuntu apps.

32-bit flavors of 18.04 include:

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