![]() But unlike Windows, the OS has to be completely reinstalled every year or so to keep software repositories up to date, regardless of distro. All in all the most recent Linux distros are about the same as W7 and W8 in resource requirements. ![]() I've decided on Mint 16 XFCE for an older non-netbook laptop with half-decent specs that had XP on it, to squeeze another year or so from it. Linux has decided to fail to be a consumer alternative Windows, in order to keep forcing more and more reinstalls. Once again, Linux is blown out of the water as it was for first gen netbooks, and it will not be a factor. Right now, the big question is what will replace XP on older machines once MS support is terminated in April. My second gen netbook will die before I change the OS on it. ![]() If I need current software I use Windows, if I want to browse safely on an old browser, I use Lubuntu. I still dual boot lightening fast Lubuntu 10.10 on it running obsolete software since Linux keeps wanting to reinstall the fatter and fatter OS instead of learning from XP and maintaining the OS and repositories to support third party software updates. The second gen around 2009 was pre-installed almost exclusively with Win 7 Starter, a crippled version of W7 that could be fixed with third-party optimizing tweaks, but still overtaxed the hardware, requiring about 40% of RAM to run. I bought an Acer with XP but the hardware broke. XP ran well and blew the rest out of the water. ![]() In fact there were at least three generations of "netbooks" on the Intel Atom: first gen around 2007 were Windows XP and various proprietary Linux distros provided by the OEMs, that all failed. ![]()
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