I don’t know much about Mint but I know that it’s popular on lightweight machines…
I was thinking about getting my mom an old laptop and running ubuntu w/lxde on it… but she’s very un-technical and just likes her Chromebook.
do you have to pay for Windows on VMs?
I didn’t like Windows 10, and generally speaking I don’t prefer anything Microsoft, except maybe Skype.
Windows 7 is decent though.
Yep. I’ve got a license I use on my VM.
It’s probably the most stable version in recent history. They’ve also removed a lot of the cruft from it, it will run better on older machines that Windows 7 does now. It’s nice to see MS finally focusing on quality rather than marketing.
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I mainly use Gentoo but I have to use windows for some games and apps.
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Linus is a hero of mine… such a real dude
Agreed. He gave the world a wonderful gift.
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Hahaha, at least they give closed source drivers for even freebsd and solaris though.
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I use Ubuntu 16.04.3 and since the last incremental update, my desktop CPU has been over heating and shutting down automatically. The o/s also freezes randomly for no apparent reason and so I have to do a hard reboot. However, my computer is 8 years old so.
I’d like to install iTunes and Microsoft Office 2016 on Ubuntu but that’s not happening because Linux for the desktop represents a very small percentage of the desktop/laptop market compared to Microsoft Windows.
You should try Lubuntu/Xubuntu, Unity is very heavy.
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I had that too, check the Ubuntu forum, as I found a workaround!
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I’m gonna try Lubuntu. The system crashes and system lockups are just too frequent. Thanks guys!
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I might try lubuntu when I get home later… thanks for tips, I had heard lxde was light
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How is the ram usage? 
Here’s the RAM usage,
from the looks of this terminal , does it look like my computer could be using more RAM?
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I have to say, Lubuntu uses much less memory than Ubuntu. My system has yet to freeze or crash on me though some Firefox browser tabs have crashed on me.
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I have Ubuntu dual installed alongside windows 10.
I rarely use it now, because my internet is so slow and nothing loads. Was going to google how to fix that, but I had to boot into windows to search that and thus far I haven’t gone back…
I like the streamlinedness of it, plus updating was just like sudo apt-get install updates or something and poof in seconds, updated! nothing like windows updates…then there’s the fact that it’s free. Free
I also have a rapsberry pi with various OS’s installed at different points of time. Right now, I believe I have motioneye installed, as part of my “make a surveillance system out of a pi and a logitech webcam” project. Only, I could not figure out how to record the stream to my SD card instead of just live streaming it through the IP address. Also, I wanted to secure the webcam for optimal viewing angles but my cat destroyed my set up which had been a couple of boxes and a webcam duct taped to the top box,…so there’s that.
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