Xojo and Linux

I have an ‘old’ laptop Acer Aspire 7740.
Intel i5 - 2.26 GHz - 4 GB Ram - Intel HD Graphics - 500 GB Harddisk.

What would be the best Linux Distribution for running XOJO and create desktop applications.

Regards

I have the same setup but upgraded to 8GB RAM

You should be able to get started no problem but I would start thinking about upgrading the RAM (if the hardware supports the upgrade)

https://documentation.xojo.com/resources/system_requirements_for_current_version.html

Oh and I run Linux Mint Cinnamon https://linuxmint.com/

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What Xojo version do you like to use?
Latest or some older one?

I would either pick Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04.

I agree with Brian - I run Mint 20.1 as my real, personal development machine. It works very well in almost every situation. I also have more RAM (64GB), but I’ve run the Xojo IDE in VMs set for 2 CPU cores and 4GB of RAM with no issues. Your i5 system should be perfect for the majority of your tasks.

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No issues running with openSUSE Leap 15.2 either. Xojo 2018 r3 and latest. Usable as a daily driver.

Thanks for the replies.
@Christian : I would like to use one of the latest version = Xojo 20r1.1 (same as I use on my windows desktop PC).
I think I will try several distributions to find out which I like best.

Regards

Read the Linux entry:

https://documentation.xojo.com/resources/system_requirements_for_current_version.html

As I posted earlier in this thread :wink:

sorry Brian. It was a reaction to:

I think I will try several distributions to find out which I like best.

Choose one from those whose names are there :wink:

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