As far as performance is concerned try installing xfce or lxde. You want to keep mint for everything else. As for the wireless printer have you tried the generic postscript driver? On Feb 14, 2013 9:33 AM, "Nicholas Korsakov" <Nicholas.Korsakov at mwcia.org> wrote: > I have an old laptop which can barely run Mint Linux (which I really > like).**** > > When I installed the latest version of Mint, I could not find a readily > find a driver for my (relatively new) wireless printer.**** > > I can probably work though this, but it is a pain. **** > > Also, I am getting weird imagery when booting…lots of vertical lines for a > while and text about my batter life (it’s plugged in).**** > > ** ** > > Can you recommend a light distro that would run better on an old, creaky > laptop?**** > > Some desired capabilities….**** > > **1. **Relatively easy to set up with a wireless printer (Brother)** > ** > > **2. **Has LibreOffice, or is relatively easy to download that > package. I love using the spreadsheet (Calc).**** > > **3. **Beautiful interface**** > > **4. **Lots of free software is available for it with a great > support community.**** > > ** ** > > I have run MacPup before and liked it too, but it seemed hard for me to > set up my printer…and it was a bit more limited on apps.**** > > ** ** > > Thank you.**** > > -- Nicholas**** > > ** ** > > *MWCIA |7701 France Ave S Ste 450 Mpls MN 55435|952.897.6426 | > nicholas.korsakov at mwcia.org***** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130214/ed7dceb6/attachment-0001.html>