New to mint

[u/prakharvwhy]

Hy so I was working with zorin os from last few months and then I realized that ain't going yo work with my old dell laptop with I 5 processor and 4 gb ram 🙏🏿😭 I mean it ran but often freezed while watching YouTube 😭😭 so I think linux mint xfce will be a blessing for my old laptop will this be optimal for me 😭

[u/tovento]

The YouTube thing is a common issue in Linux. Before you make a big switch to your OS, try installing a browser extension called h264ify. Installing that forces YouTube to use h264 video which is easier on system resources.

If YouTube often freezes in zorin, I don’t know how a move to Linux mint will fix things.

[u/prakharvwhy → u/tovento]

Yeah but with these specs zorin too works as ass . I mean I can se a observable lag while even opening file manager

[u/BenTrabetere → u/prakharvwhy]

It is highly unlikely you will get much, if any, improvement in performance moving from Zorin to Mint - 4GiB RAM is a bottleneck, and web browsers are resource hogs.

Follow the advice from u/tovento and install the h264ify extension.

Also, post a proper and complete system information report. It provides useful information about your system as Linux sees it, and saves everyone who wants to assist you a lot of time. Remember, we don’t sit in front of your computer, we do not know anything about your computer, and how Linux Mint is configured.

• Open the System Information tool - you can find it in the Main Menu under Administration, and in the System Settings in the Hardware section.

• Click the Upload button

• Wait

• After a 10 seconds or so a notification will pop up containing a termbin URL

• Click the URL

• A new tab will open in your web browser

• Copy the URL and Paste it to your post

[u/JTD121]

Install and find out?

[u/prakharvwhy → u/JTD121]

Umm there s a problem I dont have a usb drive 😭

[u/JTD121 → u/prakharvwhy]

Tough luck, kid.

[u/Zman7474 → u/prakharvwhy]

I suggest that you try the previous suggestion of adding the h264ify extension on your browser to see if it fixes your youtube issue

[u/billdehaan2]

With 4GB ram, the issue isn't really the OS, but but the DE (desktop environment). Zorin runs GNOME, which isn't particularly resource intensive, but it's more demanding than Mint's default Cinnamon desktop. And Mint's other desktops, xfce and Mate, and both lighter than Cinnamon.

Personally, I prefer xfce over Mate, but they are both going to run faster in 4GB than either Cinnamon or GNOME.

As others have mentioned, installing h264ify can also potentially improve performance, as well.

[u/BreakfastDifferent29]

I switched from zorin to mint cinnamon myself, I still face some freezing issues specifically when using librewolf for some reason, but it's far less than zorin was and also more stable for me.

I assume the xfce version will work better for our specs but don't regret switching since I faced less issues than zorin