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I finally moved the other desk to the other side of the room and that's officially the study area.

Also dug out my old Asus K50IJ and slapped Ubuntu 17.04 on it and, well, Ubuntu 17.04 is trash.

My netbook with Win10 runs faster than the Asus (netbook is single core, the Asus is dual-core).

I thought Ubuntu was low-spec friendly =\

  1. Zando_

    Zando_

    Latest I've used is 16.04, I think I may have messed with 17.04 for 5 minutes or so. I did use 12.04 and 14.04 for a long time tho, my first computer was a crappy old laptop running Ubuntu. 

  2. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    Last I've used was 11.04, hence my shock at the abysmal performance.

    Might plop Win 10 on that too. Or Mac OS

  3. Zando_

    Zando_

    Ah. MekOSS, yes, the best OS for web browsing and creative type stuff (thus why you see all the hip millennial at Starbucks with them). And Ubuntu 12.04 was good, 14.04 was cool, and 16.04 is pretty good as well. Then there's lighter flavors like Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and Elementary OS, which is also a really beautiful OS. 

  4. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    there's a couple OSes I'm considering

  5. Zando_

    Zando_

    Hehe. I could name/refresh myself on a ton of Linux OSs. There's Deepin, Zorin, Linux Mint, Pear OS (Basically a Mac OS X Mavericks clone, crossed with iOS 7, and the guy was bought off, some speculate by Apple), etc. I used to be really big into getting Linux flavors and running them in virtual box on the afore mentioned crappy laptop (some old dual core and 4-8GB of RAM, depending on what I had dug up at the time). I still have that laptop somewhere I think, but it gives and OS error on every other boot, so think I tinkered it to death. I think it's running 14.04 with the MacBuntu Theme from noobslab. 

  6. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    I need something lightweight. That laptop will only ever be used to display textbooks and school stuff.

  7. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    CPU is a dual-core T3200 (I think) at 1.9GHz, 2 gigs of ddr2 and 40(?)gb hdd. integrated graphics, naturally.

  8. Zando_

    Zando_

    Hmmmm... Lubuntu is pretty light. And if you want super light, puppy linux is pretty ugly but it can run from the RAM if you want to, and only needs like 512MB of disk space if you install it.

  9. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    I don't need it to take up 5 megs of ram and 2 of storage. I just need it to reliably run a browser and some sort of PDF reader :P

  10. Zando_

    Zando_

    I think Puppy linux is pretty much as light as it gets. For a more usable lightweight one, try Elementary OS or Lubuntu. 

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