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Using Mint on Intel Atom processor

Post by Nbl12 » Mon Jul 20, 2020 4:27 am

Hello gurus.
I need some help here. I recently bought a new laptop running on 32-bit Windows 7 and having this specs:
Intel Atom N270; 1.60 GHz; 2GB RAM; Graphics card: Intel GMA 950.
I will like to be running Linux Mint together with the Windows from a USB stick. Actually, I want to get Mint so I can run Blender — a 3D modeling software independent of Windows.
My question now is: Which version of Mint will be most suitable for this computer, and is what I am trying to do feasible at all. Can I also run a 64-bit Linux distro on this computer?
Please your advise will be well welcomed.

And if you have any link to where I can learn how Linux work properly and how to find my way around it as a newbie, please share.

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Re: Using Mint on Intel Atom processor

Post by hydrurga » Mon Jul 20, 2020 5:27 am

Others may have differing opinions but in my opinion those are very underwhelming specs for a laptop. I used to have a Samsung N140 with similar specs quite a number of years ago and it was rather sluggish running demanding applications such as browser and image/video processing software. Blender in particular has quite demanding requirements (https://www.blender.org/download/requirements/) which your machine won’t meet.

As far as I remember, the N270 is purely a 32-bit processor, so you won’t be able to run 64-bit applications on it, or install Mint 20 which has dropped 32-bit support.

If you are going to run Linux on your machine, I recommend a very light Xfce-based distro flavour which supports 32-bit. If you want to use Blender I suggest you somehow find another machine with much better specs. I am sorry to say all this given that you’ve just bought your new laptop. As a system with which to learn Linux, your laptop will be fine. Just don’t expect it to do anything demanding.

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Re: Using Mint on Intel Atom processor

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Re: Using Mint on Intel Atom processor

Post by Nbl12 » Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:24 pm

hydrurga wrote: ⤴ Mon Jul 20, 2020 5:27 am Others may have differing opinions but in my opinion those are very underwhelming specs for a laptop. I used to have a Samsung N140 with similar specs quite a number of years ago and it was rather sluggish running demanding applications such as browser and image/video processing software. Blender in particular has quite demanding requirements (https://www.blender.org/download/requirements/) which your machine won’t meet.

As far as I remember, the N270 is purely a 32-bit processor, so you won’t be able to run 64-bit applications on it, or install Mint 20 which has dropped 32-bit support.

If you are going to run Linux on your machine, I recommend a very light Xfce-based distro flavour which supports 32-bit. If you want to use Blender I suggest you somehow find another machine with much better specs. I am sorry to say all this given that you’ve just bought your new laptop. As a system with which to learn Linux, your laptop will be fine. Just don’t expect it to do anything demanding.

Hi, Hydrurga. Big thanks for replying. I am actually starting out with Blender and I will be teaching myself, so I not really aiming for the latest release. I only want to load Blender to practice with it but don’t want to add the load to Windows. I really hope Linux Mint works, I am going to give it a try. Please, can you recommend a 32-bit Linux Mint version that you think will work?

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Re: Using Mint on Intel Atom processor

Post by JoeFootball » Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:31 pm

The «lightest» supported LM version would be LM 18.3 Xfce (supported until April 2021).

That said, I too have doubts that Blender will be of useful on that laptop, but you can always try.

Re: Using Mint on Intel Atom processor

Post by sarge816 » Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:33 pm

We may have identical netbooks — mine is a Dell Inspiron Mini10 with the exact specs as yours. I currently use it to run our home security system with Windows 7 32bit, but it used to run Linux Mint all the way back to 2009 (mine came with Ubuntu preinstalled). I can tell you that the current LM19.3, which is the last supported 32 bit Mint, does not run all that well even in Xfce. Although it does work, I’d take the advice given and instead use the legacy 32bit Bhodi LInux. I used this Distro on the netbook and it worked fast and smooth. Also highly recommend an SSD if you haven’t gotten one already. Although changing out the hard drive on this thing made me hate Dell — a lot. What a PITA. Good luck.

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Re: Using Mint on Intel Atom processor

Post by absque fenestris » Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:43 pm

Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Mate) 32-bit — Acer D250 Netbook (Intel Atom N270, 2 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD)

Mint MATE 18.x has been running reliably on the small Acer netbook for almost 4 years.
However, if you also have the ridiculous 1024 x 600 monitor on your device, I am rather skeptical about using blender.

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Re: Using Mint on Intel Atom processor

Post by kukamuumuka » Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:55 pm

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Watch out for newest Intel Atom processors

Post by xenopeek » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:42 am

Last generation of Intel Atoms: CedarView (D2300, D2500, D2550, D2600, D2700) and Cedar Trail (N2600, N2700, N2800) SoCs integrate a PowerVR GPU from Imagination instead of the usual Intel GPU. [. ] An unsupported graphic card on Linux distributions, and which can’t properly support a basic desktop environnment like Unity or Gnome 3.

Read more: https://gist.github.com/2925633. The GPU on these processors is the GMA 500, GMA 600, GMA 3600 or GMA 3650.

This may impact users wanting to run Cinnamon (though the upcoming version of Cinnamon has a «Cinnamon 2D» session, that will allow it to work), or Compiz. Before you buy a new system with an Intel Atom, check if it has one of these. (See also the comments from AlbertP on http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p . 9&start=20 for more background about the problems with this.)

To be very clear, this is just about these specific Intel Atom models, for which there is currently a problem on using them with Linux + hardware accelerated graphics.

Intel processors generally work very well with Linux, as Intel actively contributes to the Linux kernel and is an important sponsor and driver of Linux on multiple fronts. Just avoid these models for now when buying new hardware.

Edit: Also Intel Atom processors from the upcoming Clover Trail series again use Imagination’s PowerVR GPU, and even Intel itself has now declared these processors will not work properly with Linux. Read more here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=112507. It won’t be until 2013 that Intel will offer a new Atom processor series that will be fully supported on Linux.

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