Comment on Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCsparentComments−hlfshell14yXubuntu is your "lite" release for old hardware. It's shipped with XFCE instead of Unity so it doesn't require much to run. I believe Xubuntu 12.04 is released same-day as the 12.04 release.−krakensden14yThe latest Unity 2D is actually quite snappy on my machine, for what it's worth. More so than Unity, in fact.
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Xubuntu is your "lite" release for old hardware. It's shipped with XFCE instead of Unity so it doesn't require much to run. I believe Xubuntu 12.04 is released same-day as the 12.04 release.
The latest Unity 2D is actually quite snappy on my machine, for what it's worth. More so than Unity, in fact.