I have a Fujitsu mini laptop which has XP Professional on it, but it only has a Crusoe processor that really isn't up to the job of running XP. It struggles to do anything useful. I can click on explorer and wait 15 seconds for it to appear sometimes. I really think that it's simply XP is too heavy an OS to run on it (even worse than how Vista feels even when it's running on a Supercomputer 
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I was thinking maybe I'd nuke XP and install Ubuntu on it. I'm a total noob when it comes to *nix, but I gather Ubuntu is designed for such people with it having a simpler install process and it's all wrapped up in GUI softness and has a suite of standard apps.
I've assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that Ubuntu will manage to run a lot easier on a slow machine than XP would. Rather than just trying it and maybe finding out I was wrong, and have nuked my XP for no reason, I wonder if anyone would confirm whether they think Ubuntu would be a much lighter OS. Of course, direct experience of having run XP Pro and Ubuntu on one machine would be the best reference point.
The laptop in question is extremely flexible (it's small, has a great screen and keyboard, can replace the DVD drive with a second battery etc) so I really don't want to throw it away. If I can put a quicker OS on it and salvage some usefulness from it, that'd be great. I hope the install wizard manages to do everything, this guide makes me think things won't be all that easy. I hope Ubuntu does a better job than Debian.
).I was thinking maybe I'd nuke XP and install Ubuntu on it. I'm a total noob when it comes to *nix, but I gather Ubuntu is designed for such people with it having a simpler install process and it's all wrapped up in GUI softness and has a suite of standard apps.
I've assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that Ubuntu will manage to run a lot easier on a slow machine than XP would. Rather than just trying it and maybe finding out I was wrong, and have nuked my XP for no reason, I wonder if anyone would confirm whether they think Ubuntu would be a much lighter OS. Of course, direct experience of having run XP Pro and Ubuntu on one machine would be the best reference point.
The laptop in question is extremely flexible (it's small, has a great screen and keyboard, can replace the DVD drive with a second battery etc) so I really don't want to throw it away. If I can put a quicker OS on it and salvage some usefulness from it, that'd be great. I hope the install wizard manages to do everything, this guide makes me think things won't be all that easy. I hope Ubuntu does a better job than Debian.
