Cosmic is perfect for my Dell Latitude E6430

[papakanush]

Just want to report that installing Cosmic was smooth as silk, and really pleased with the results on my old Dell laptop. These are great old laptops that are built like a tank (and weigh about as much too).

Note that because its just my own personal laptop, I usually just back up my files to an external hard drive and make a clean install, rather than upgrade from an older version. Keeps it simple for me. Here are my specs:

danny@R2D2:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host: R2D2 Kernel: 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.13.5 
         Distro: Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6430 v: 01 serial: <root required> 
         Mobo: Dell model: N/A serial: <root required> BIOS: Dell v: A12 date: 05/20/2013 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 19.7 Wh condition: 21.9/60.0 Wh (37%) 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3340M bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
         Speed: 1448 MHz min/max: 1200/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1232 2: 1194 3: 1208 4: 1198 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GF108GLM [NVS 5200M] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
         Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.1 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
         resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
         OpenGL: renderer: NVC1 v: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.2 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
         Device-2: NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
         Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.18.0-10-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e 
         IF: eno1 state: down mac: f0:1f:af:1b:c2:dd 
         Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
         IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: 6c:88:14:7d:ae:fc 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 11.78 GiB (5.1%) 
         ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS250G32TND-N1A2A size: 232.89 GiB 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 228.23 GiB used: 11.78 GiB (5.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 64.0 C mobo: 47.0 C sodimm: 40.0 C gpu: nouveau temp: 56 C 
         Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2882 
Info:      Processes: 173 Uptime: 22m Memory: 15.62 GiB used: 971.5 MiB (6.1%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.24 
danny@R2D2:~$

Like I said, lightning fast, and graphics are perfect without having to change from nouveau driver, though I don't do any graphics heavy gaming. I like the new default wallpaper so much, I may not change it.

Thank you to all the development team for the great work!!