I am running a fresh install of Linux Lite 3.6, 2x Intel(R) Pentium 4 CPU, 3.4GHz
Armory 0.96.0 for Ubuntu/Debian 64-bit with GCC 5.3 doesn't seem to work for me.
It looks like it installed ok, but...  If click the Armory Icon nothing happens.
If I type armory at the command line it gives an exception a null pointer or something, and just quits.
Armory 0.96.0 for Ubuntu/Debian 64-bit with GCC 4.7 does work.
But gcc --version gives
gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) 5.4.0 20160609

Does not make sense to me? gcc 5.4 should cover 5.3?

Old Laptop with Linux Lite (Sony VGN BX660P), 2Gb ram, 2 core ~1.8Mhz, 200Gb internal and 1 TB USB external USB drive.
and Windows 10 Asus I7, 3.4Gh, 16GB, 500GB SSD, for setup.
Installed Bitcoin Core  and Armory on Windows 10, using the external USB drive for both Blockchain and the Armory databases with a new empty wallet on local C drive.
I shut down Armory and Bitcoin Core. removed USB drive, and plugged it in to the Laptop.
Installed Bitcoin Core  and Armory on the Laptop. Bitcoin Core comes up syncs OK, obviously much slower than the I7, but still reasonable.
Start Armory, again with an new empty local wallet,  it comes up, says it is connected, builds and processes the database in a few minutes.

Then it starts scanning transaction history, first it says it will take days, then it after an hour or so it is saying it will take 5 hours. On the bottom right it is  still saying connected (0 blocks)

I did shut it down, put it back on the I7, and it comes up and spends very little time scanning the transaction history, put it back on the laptop, and transaction history still is going slow.

My plan was to just let the old laptop chug away, it really doesn't matter if it takes hours to come up, as long as I can see my balances and it is reasonable  when I import an offline transaction.
I don't want a node on my good computer, I'm rebooting and messing with it all the time.

Comments?

Armory version 0.96.3 on Linux Lite On a Sony vgn BX660P laptop 2G ram 200Gb internal and 1 TB USB external USB drive
Installs were successful, bitcoin-qt syncs, armory offline runs if I skip creating a wallet.
When I try to create a wallet all goes fine, until I click the Next after entering the Passphrase, then it just dumps me out.
The last few lines of armorylog.txt are
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:3559 - Using settings file: /home/rick/.armory/ArmorySettings.txt
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2061 - loadWalletsAndSettings
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2121 - Loading wallets...
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2186 - Number of wallets read in: 0
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1763 - acquiring process mutex...
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1395 - setupUriRegistration
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:672 - Executing popen: gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/bitcoin/command
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:672 - Executing popen: xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/bitcoin
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:566 - Usermode: Advanced
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1698 - Changing usermode:
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1699 -    From: Advanced
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1707 -      To: Advanced
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1836 - startBitcoindIfNecessary
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (WARNING) -- ArmoryQt.py:1842 - Not online, will not start bitcoind
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4573 - Dashboard switched to auto-OfflineNoSatoshiNoInternet
2018-02-02 11:13:34 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1142 - Adding 93 keypress events to the entropy pool
2018-02-02 11:13:34 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1144 - Adding 1.8 kB bytes of filesystem data to the entropy pool
2018-02-02 11:13:34 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1146 - Adding 199.3 kB bytes from desktop screenshot to the entropy pool
2018-02-02 11:13:35 (INFO) -- PyBtcWallet.py:885 - ***Creating new deterministic wallet
2018-02-02 11:13:35 (INFO) -- PyBtcWallet.py:891 - (with encryption)
2018-02-02 11:13:35 (INFO) -- PyBtcWallet.py:893 - Target (time,RAM)=(0.250,33554432)