Hello everyone!

Before I mess up my laptop, I'd like to know if there are any recommendations that would work with Satellite CL 15t?
I've installed older versions of UBUNTU on older laptops and they worked fine. It seems that with newer laptops there are some restrictions imposed by the manufacturer...any help will be greatly appreciated!

Hello and welcome to the forum

Please do not make duplicate posts across the forum.

Is this your system here? If so and you only have 2 GB's of memory, you can give Lubuntu a try, if you want to stick with the Ubuntu line of distributions.

There's no eye candy but it's good for systems with lower hardware specs.

Regards...

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If you have the touch-screen version and want to use that facility, then Ubuntu Gnome os the way to go: Gnome came out top when Distrowatch tested different desktops on a touch-screen.

You probably don't need a lightweight distro. 2 GB is ample for Linux and the CPU, although not high-end, is more powerful than the one I'm using here!

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Hi David...

I wish that were true. Just a few weeks ago on a customer's system, I had Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon eat up almost 4 GB's with just one application (Chrome) running, not counting whatever services were running in the background.

Regards...

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Lubuntu Netinst

You don't want to run anything TOOOOOOOO up to date, either. Sadly, the N2840 = baytrail, which needs a 4.0+ kernel to guarantee the touchpad works (some distro's did backport support for the touchpad prior to 4.0, but not all), but needs <4.5 in order for the audio to work (known issue with the sound driver in 4.5, I've read it still exists in 4.6 but haven't verified myself).

Just my $.02

I actually ran Debian Stable KDE on a similar spec machines (HP Streambook 11.6, except it wasn't touchscreen; also a Toshiba Chromebook 2 13.3" (3330, not the 3340 I still have), again not touchscreen), and it ran absolutely fine, was super happy with the performance given the lack of ram on both machines, so honestly, lightweight distro's AREN'T needed, just don't want to run a distro that is overly bloated.

Edit - just tested on my Baytrail device, and the Debian backports 4.6 kernel, at the very least not only does audio not work again still, but graphics performance is ABYSMAL.

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Thanks everyone!
You all have`been very helpful...
I'll give it a try...
And yes, I have TOSHIBA Laptop Satellite CL15T-B1204XB Intel Celeron N2840 (2.16 GHz) 2 GB Memory 32GB Solid state flash memory Intel HD Graphics 11.6" Touchscreen Windows 10 Home

Thanks!!

You're welcome, let us know how it turns out.

Regards...

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