Hi Ron,

I'd find the Dell Express Service code or Service Tag and then go to https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us If you grab the latest copy of Dell support Assist or Dell Command Update it will pull down the latest firmware (BIOS, etc.) updates. I'd do these before installing Xubuntu. Dell generally uses quality components so I've not had problems in the past w/ installing/running Xubuntu.

Good luck,

Joe

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:05 AM hammerron via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

I recently got a Dell notebook/laptop.  It is smaller than a typical lap
top (notebook?) and is very light in weight.  The hard drive is only 28
GB ! It currently runs Windows 10 and has only 4 GB of free space on the
hard drive.  It seems to just hang, if I try to update the Windows 10.

I am thinking of attempting to install Xubuntu to see if it runs.  Tried
Puppy Linux (a light weight distro) before and think I'd like to go
differently.  I got the machine for free so will not be disappointed if
this goes nowhere.  If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears.  (I might try
to do this install tonight)

Ron

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