Hello everyone! My relative has an old laptop (probably 8 years old): Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Moble (I believe it's 500 series, I can't see it right now, as I don't have access to that computer for the moment). Originally it came with Windows Vista (mercy, please!). Couple of months ago I saved this computer by introducing Linux. Unfortunately I had a very hard time finding a good distro that could work well with that computer. The biggest issue was the screen resolution. For some reason I could only use very low screen resolution, Ubuntu & Mint didn't let me even go above 800x600 (while this computer under Windows was working under 1280x800 - if I remember correctly). Elementry OS turned out to be a way better option, everything worked better, but still not at the maximum resolution and the video is always cutting (it doesn't play smoothly), and also after few months of using elementry OS there appeared some annoying thins about that distro (for example side bars navigators). My question to you guys is: what would be the best distro for such a computer? The laptop's owner is using it only for few software: Firefox with Flashplayer (web browsing, YouTube, etc.) LibreOffice: Calc & Writer Inkscape (vector graphics) Qmmp (for listening to music) VLC Player (watching movies) and rarely: GIMP (drawing / graphics)
To business I've installed lxle on a Fujitsu Siemens esprimo mobile v5535 to replace the glacial Windows vista. Not showing any graphics drivers at all in driver manager.