I have an old computer (AMD Phenom 4-core CPU, 4GB RAM, nVidia 210 GPU) that I put together myself. It ran Kubuntu 14.04.4 just fine. (I have /home on a separate partition.)
It took less than 10 minutes to download the packages over a broadband internet connection, and then about an hour to install them.
Post-installation, the only major problems were a) Audacious (multimedia app) had been upgraded from a PPA that was disabled, so I had to re-enable the PPA (for Xenial) in order to keep it from conflicting with QMMP (another multimedia app); and b) Dolphin's desktop launcher had to be edited because the new version apparently doesn't understand as many command-line switches as the old version did.
Other than that, problems were largely cosmetic in nature. For example, LibreOffice looked like Windows 95 because the GTK and GTK3 integration packages hadn't been installed. I needed to rename the "~/.face" icon to "~/.face.icon" in order for sddm to display my avatar. I needed to turn anti-aliasing back on and set the DPI back to 96. Stuff like that.
So it all went pretty well, which is something I've come to expect from Ubuntu and its community-based distros.
If you upgrade, I'd highly recommend using Y PPA Manager to re-enable and reset your PPAs.
Also, the "backports" PPA has recently released Plasma version 5.6.4.
As always, YMMV! Happy computing.
It took less than 10 minutes to download the packages over a broadband internet connection, and then about an hour to install them.
Post-installation, the only major problems were a) Audacious (multimedia app) had been upgraded from a PPA that was disabled, so I had to re-enable the PPA (for Xenial) in order to keep it from conflicting with QMMP (another multimedia app); and b) Dolphin's desktop launcher had to be edited because the new version apparently doesn't understand as many command-line switches as the old version did.
Other than that, problems were largely cosmetic in nature. For example, LibreOffice looked like Windows 95 because the GTK and GTK3 integration packages hadn't been installed. I needed to rename the "~/.face" icon to "~/.face.icon" in order for sddm to display my avatar. I needed to turn anti-aliasing back on and set the DPI back to 96. Stuff like that.
So it all went pretty well, which is something I've come to expect from Ubuntu and its community-based distros.
If you upgrade, I'd highly recommend using Y PPA Manager to re-enable and reset your PPAs.
Also, the "backports" PPA has recently released Plasma version 5.6.4.
As always, YMMV! Happy computing.
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