Installed Linux on my laptop - impressions

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scottie said:

SuperDave said:
Hrm, I'd say that machine is a little underpowered for XP, which might of been your issue. Mind you I've seen plenty of people try and run XP with half the ram and a 1ghz processor. Either way, I'm glad that Linux is at least working out for you.

 

Lols, I was bought a machine with those exact same specs for xmas last year. It came pre installed with Vista. That machine cannot run vista. First thing I did with the compy was check how much of the ram was being used - 450/512mb. That's with a clean install. I uninstalled all the crap that Acer foisted on to me and it dropped to about 256/512 in use. That wasn't enough for me so I tried to install XP. Used the Windows formatting tool and put in the xp cd, it didn't install and I had to restore Vista. I then got xubuntu and an open source formatting tool, it managed to find the hidden partition (partition 7 apparently) that was giving my computer instructions to not install xp and formatted it. I then dual booted xp for gaming and Xubuntu for everything else.

 

My point is, I also rate linux highly, and 512 mb of ram is much more than XP requires

 

My point exactly!