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Do ubuntu 16 will work on my laptop which has

4gb ram 64 bit processr 2 gb intel and nvidia graphics

I think that it won t' work on 4gb ram

kyodake
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Newbi
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    See [What are the system requirements for each flavour of Ubuntu Desktop](https://askubuntu.com/questions/333795/what-are-the-system-requirements-for-each-flavour-of-ubuntu-desktop) – steeldriver May 11 '17 at 23:58
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    I would suggest Xubuntu instead of regular Ubuntu – You'reAGitForNotUsingGit May 12 '17 at 00:59
  • Have a look at the following link and links from it, 'Try Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, ...) before installing it', https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2230389 – sudodus May 12 '17 at 01:33

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Yes it will. I have it running on my 12-year-old Dell laptop which is maxed out on 4GB RAM and it works nicely.

I strongly suggest replacement of the disk with an SSD, though. It decreases startup time to a few seconds and everything goes faster. If you do this, add noatime,discard options to your fstab mount. Plenty of resources out there for migration to SSD but a new install is amazingly easy.

Keep the system monitor open and with 4GB it will need swap space.

Mike

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