i7-6700 OK for Kubuntu 24.04 (and beyond??)

[rockandroller]

I have an ancient Shuttle mini desktop (2016) that was able to upgrade a couple of years ago from win10 to win 11. But only to win11 22H2 (and no further!!) and that 22H2 is now EOL with no more patches planned.
I'm looking at converting it (and another couple old laptops) to Kubuntu, was wondering if its a good bet for that vintage of machine.
I am runing 24.04 very nicely right now on an oldish HP micro desktop running (7th gen) i7-7700T CPU with the HD Graphics 630 ...

[Snowhog]

Likely. But easy enough to test. Just download the ISO and burn it to a Live USB stick, boot and check out.

[claydoh]

It should be fine, more so if you use an SSD.

I had until very recently an HP mini Elitedesk with an i5 6500t (35 watt version) and 8Gb ram and it ran Kubuntu just fine. It was running from an nvme drive, which makes a huge and massive difference, but a very brief test on a 2.5" 7200rpm laptop HDD was still fine. I now sport a similar Elitedesk with an i5 7500t/16Gb as my daily driver at the moment. Not much difference in performance between the two, to be honest. I7 will be fine for sure.

My nephew has my really old i3 4th gen laptop w/6 Gb ram that runs just fine for basic activities and web games, from an old SATA ssd I swapped in.

[jlittle]

I run an i7-6700 desktop, with 16 GB of RAM, on-board graphics (Intel 530) driving two 1440p monitors, from 2016, and I have no perception of performance limits. It's only when running VMs that more than 8 GB of RAM is used.

The only upgrade I've applied is a cheapish (Crucial BX500) NVMe M.2, replacing the original 960 EVO 250 GB SATA SSD, giving about 5 x the i/o. (NVMe devices were a bit pricey in 2016, but the motherboard has a slot for one.)

[oshunluvr]

Mine working fine

[rockandroller]

Thanks very much for the feedback.
I just installed it and it is indeed working excellent on this ten-year-old hardware .
(time flies when yer having fun...)