Which Linux distribution to choose for a 2009 laptop?

Question

linux

Available:
- laptop DELL Latitude E6400, British, Intel Core 2 Duo P8700, 2Gb RAM, Nvidia NVS 160m, 120 GB 7200RPM
- some experience in Ubuntu 14.04, Fedora 22,
The issue of speed and response time of the system to commands is acute. The lighter the distribution kit, the better :)
When using GNOME SHELL on fedora 22, and indeed on Ubuntu as well, I ran into the problem of "scattered" uneven animations, strong thoughtfulness. Sleep does not work properly in XFCE (also in both cases).
The laptop is certainly not new, but not too old either. I saw how a penguin was wound up on very outdated pieces of iron and everything worked like clockwork. In my case, the touch (ALPS touchpad) falls off with proprietary firewood on NVIDA, then the processor heat is high, then the dream does not work, then the thoughtfulness is too big (sometimes I waited for the firelis to start for 15 seconds)
So which way to look then?

Answer 1

Linux Mint MATE
tested on Asus EEE, which is much weaker than yours.

Answer 2

You already decide what you need. Beautiful interface with goodies or "speed and response time of the system". For your computer, either this or that. Nice you already tried (Gnome shell). If you want maximum performance, look at builder distributions (arch, gentoo, debian netinst...). As a compromise, a good variant of Manjaro.

Answer 3

Distributor - any. DE - also, in principle, anyone, I think, will pull. On my Celeron, the fourth sneakers flew at one time ...
If there is no time or hands do not grow from there - put ubuntu and rejoice. If you want to dig deeper / adjust - something like archa with a light DE.
If it's really time for a wagon - assemble a gent with an avesom.

Answer 4

Debian. It is also on a Dell laptop, only 500. There, the characteristics are even more modest.
From DE it is better to choose XFCE or any window manager will almost fit, take it to taste. And even KDE works on mine, slowly, though (HDD on mine still does not differ in the speed of work at least somewhat acceptable; in general, it is better to change it to an SSD if possible).

Answer 5

Debian. At the HP dv6835er itself - it works fine, even the tanks are running at the minimum))

Answer 6

Hmm, Ubuntu itself stands, an old beech (8 years old, samsung) 2 cores 2 giga RAM, the flight is normal, I would even say excellent. Is everything all right with the beech? Clean \ wash \ cat does not sleep on it? well, try another distro, mb got caught, also see if it is loaded with left processes, ubuntu can pull all sorts of updates at the beginning of the life cycle.

Answer 7

Arch+Fxce