Linux? or strip down?

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EchoingLaughter

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I have an ancient Gateway Solo laptop. (pentium III, close to 500 mb ram (upgrade that did not work out) 10 gig hd) it works, even does most of what i want. would linux blow me away on performance? or would i be better off stripping down xp and coaxing it along? i use this laptop for web browsing, email, word 97, and i have to run itunes. (Touch) I-tunes is a slow rapacious system hog! a whole new kind of slow! i am on the verge of downloading linux but i figure ya'll could help me figure this out.
 
I primarily use Ubuntu. Loaded on a similarly spec'ed computer (Athlon 850, 256MB RAM, 20GB HD) it's quite sluggish. From what I've seen, Windows is typically a good bit faster. If all you're looking for is speed, I'd suggest staying with Windows.

Oh...and on Linux, don't even TRY playing flash videos on a lower-spec machine :P
 
Motoxrdude said:
You can't run iTunes on linux, so stick with XP. Xp is plenty fast anyways on old machines.
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Actually...well I've not tried itunes, but with Wine it might be possible to... Hmm, I'll check in my VM :P

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Tested, didn't work. Got that it didn't install correctly, error 7 :P I'm pretty sure there are alternatives for Linux, but yeah...it won't work. Even if it did, I guess things like the ipod service wouldn't work either.
 
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Hmm... There are too many darn distro's for Linux :P Haha, but I think I'll give LXDE a shot. It might be going on my Netbook if it seems a bit quicker than Ubuntu on my VM ;P
 
thanks. i think that i am going to stick with xp. i am thinking that i should just strip down and try to speed up my little beast. Thanks again!
 
The_Other_One said:
Hmm... There are too many darn distro's for Linux :P Haha, but I think I'll give LXDE a shot. It might be going on my Netbook if it seems a bit quicker than Ubuntu on my VM ;P
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FTW, LXDE is just the desktop environment, not the distro. I would try fluxbox out too, it's super lightweight.
 
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