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I have a Dell Latitude D505 laptop that I compose on. I like it. It's fast. It's got an older (4.2 something) LO on it but I'm comfortable using it and you guys have assured me that the transference from the 4.2 to the 4.4 (on Xubuntu 15.04) is not problematic.
So here's the deal. The laptop only has like 12.04 on it. It will NOT upgrade. I'm thinking because it's so slow. In fact, I wanted to put Dropbox on there, and it wouldn't even open the Ubuntu Software Center.
So can I put a lighter distro on there and perhaps make it work faster? (I don't know why it's so slow. It is wired and had 15GB space available.) Or should I be thinking of getting a new laptop?
And I would really like to keep the laptop on the same distro as my desktops.
And back to Dropbox. I was able to install it on the laptop via the command line. The icon showed up in the toolbar, but then it did not sync with the other computers and the icon disappeared.
When I check in the command line if Dropbox is there, it says it isn't. So then I follow the command line's instructions for installing it and after I'm done, it still says it isn't there.
Any ideas?
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