Schwarzie

Hopefully there will be some boards with a propper cooling solution for the Chipset instead of microfans with 10k rpm that die after six month. I had my A8N-SLI 3 times RMAed and i will definitely never buy a board with small fans on it ever again.

I have no idea, worked for both veracrypt and truecrypt, i downloaded them, then were asked if i want to run them in the console and then some, rather oldish looking windows popped up with the licensestuff where i only had to click yes proceed or no. Very simple and no typing necessary. Mint is based on Ubutunu, but thats as much as i can help you with this

The Linux Mint 19 im currently trying actually can actually open and run these with a semi-Gui so you dont even have to see the terminal for installing anything from them.

That wasnt ment as an attack Youre running in open doors here. I even would say that the one from Windows 7 sucked due to the "Superbar" The Ubuntuforum actually is a huge step forwards, partially due to the alleged Beginnerfriendliness of this distribution which tends to draw in the people that stress any sanity the most. Now going as a Beginner coming from Windows to say the Debian guys will end worse.

And DDR2-533 would already be enough to saturate the FSB of his CPU Any faster memory will only have neglibile impact on his systems speed. Timings should be more important then Bandwidth.

The first Generation of Intel CPUs for consumers with an integrated memory controller were Nehalems. Youre C2Q runs with whatever memory the motherboard that supports this CPU can handle, typically that will be DDR2 für up to the X3X chipsets and DDR3 for the X4X Chipsets. But that said it makes no difference since the rather slow FSB of the C2 Processors limited the maximum usable Ram Speed noticably and DDR3 wont make a big difference, if one at all. EDIT: and others were even faster answering

Well thats just you. You will have a hard time to argue that Windows has less driver support then Linux, especially with some extremely exotic garbadge. (for example say high to cheap GDI printers where even big brands arent unproblematic). Your whole post smacks me with the undertone of "look how Linux is better" which it arguably isnt in all cases. Yes there are some things Linux does more comfortably (Repository and Updates without reboot), there are a lot of things were Linux allows for more customization. Which is main the reason i try Linux from time to time. I have the fanatical believe that i use my computer the way I want and that an OS is merely a tool that enables my software to run. It has to be as invisible as possible and allow me the workflow im used to. And im fully aware that a lot of that is simply shaped by habbit over time. Im using Windows now for 25+ years (yes i survived Windows for Workgroups...) and therefore there are things where im utterly unwilling to spend any time to bend the OS to my will. For example my detachable quicklaunchbar in the left corner of the screen where i can start all applications with a single (yes that is VERY important!) click or a defined keyboardshortcut if i so desire. Since Windows Vista MS is increasingly hostile to this feature and from Windows 7 on it was outright kicked out. I found at least one Linux window Manager, XFCE, that has the same feature as Windows 95-Windows XP had Out of the box and easy to find (Both Connamon and KDE didnt. Or at least that well hidden that i didnt find it). And yes i tried a multitude of dockersoftware. They ALL(!) suck in various shades. Nothing comes close the the sheer simplicity of such a simple bar (i dont like eyecandy and currently use TrueLaunchBar under Windows. And im not happy to need 3rd party applications for something that i consider a basic OS functionality, especially since that Tool dioesnt come free) No fuss, no animation, just one click. The deletion of this feature was one of my main driving factors, besides curiosity, to switch over to Linux from time to time. BUT everytime you run into anything that doesnt work the way you want out of the box or doesnt work at all out of the box you quickly find yourself delving into the depths of the command console and the, to the eyes of someone who grew up with DOS and Windows, very unusual folder structure and then all ease of use evaporates. I would consider this together with the missing designguidelines for Usability of Software (no no i wont delve into the religious wars between users of Vim and EMACS) to be the two main issues for the lack of Linux success on the desktop. And Endusers usually dont care if an issue is the fault of the OS, the driver or the software, they just see that something doesnt work. In Windows more often then not even a Layer 8 problem can solved by the cause problem itself somehow. While all the time clicking around and having a direct visual feedback without the necessecity of knowing "arcane" console commands. With Linux? Said person is simply out of luck. Linux still has quite some way to go before it reaches the ease of use Windows has towards casual users, and these are the vast majority. It also doesnt help that a big chunk of the Linux community is outright hostile towards beginners. Especially the non tech savvie beginner types. So no, Linux isnt outright better. The things it does better usually wont make up for the things it does worse. But at the same time i have to admit that over the course of the last 15 years Linux made huge steps towards ease of use for casuals without giving up its strength. But i cant see great success for it without the console becoming truly optional. That said, the most hillarious things with my issues were that actually out of all the stuff that didnt work out of the box 2 times it hit a networking device which usually is THE strongpoint of Linux. The (actually unfixable) behaviour around the screen closed sensor in the Thinkpad was something that at least didnt surprise me totally, even though it was highly annoying. At least the fontrendering was apparently fixed. Due to this thread (and to much free time over the holidays) i put Linux Mint on a spare disk and i cant find a difference to Windows or MacOS anymore. *thumbs up* to whom it belongs.

Well thats my collection of several attempts to switch to Linux over many years, not all at once, so it wasnt a total desaster Still, every time i ruefully came back to Windows.

Thats no wonder to me. I tried several time to switch to Linux on my non Gaming system (i use Notebooks in Dockingstations for that for 10+ years now) and even though the Systems i tried it on are renowned for good Linux compatability ALWAYS(!) something doesnt work, no matter how much time i spend to solve the issue. Be i the nondetection of the closed screen when my Thinkpad T61 was sitting in its Dockingstation (which forced me to switch resolutions and multiple screensettings manually while windows 7 did all what i wanteds out of the box) or nonworking wireless lan cards (also in a Thinkpad) or not detected Lan chips (was a Intel one in yet another thinkpad) it simply drove me crazy. And if thats not enough the Linux fontrendering works somehow fundamentally different then either Windows or MacOS. On both i can work all day without issues while under Linux i get burining eyes after one or two hours because all fonts are borked and blurry (which is apparently an issue that im not alone with even though its rare, and i have the same problem with the GPU assisted fontrendering under Windows withing Firefox but there a simple checkbox remedies that issue)). I tried for a week, together with some people in the Ubutuno helpforums to fix this issues (because after all Linux indeed gives you lots and lots of options to tweak that) but to no avail. That was 4 years ago, never tried against since then. And every single issue was either unsolvable or made havy use of the command console necessary. Thats not the level of comfort i demand from a modern operating system. I want to use my computer with the applications i want and it has to work. So far Windows does that without major hickups even though Windows 10 has several annoying issues (like espionage and repeated reboots just for an update, definitely two strongsuits for Linux)