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Bill Dietrich: Linux Problems
- navjack27 4y agoAll of this is valid. Good stuff! I recently went to set up an old laptop I have that has an athlon 64 X2. The first operating system that was on it was Windows 8. It ran fine it ran great it did everything that I wanted it to do which really isn't all that much but I was curious. I installed haiku on it and well it had the usual Haiku issues but I was able to actually use the system and do quite a lot on it. But I was curious again so I downloaded 14 different distros of Linux and set out to try them all. They all sucked. Multiple things were broken on every single one and I would have to jump through so many different hoops doing things so slowly to just get to even the point of usability that I was at with haiku. What did I end up doing after this whole adventure? I installed Vista as an insult to Linux. I was able to actually use the computer with Vista installed but there were issues when it came to accessing things on the internet and what kind of programs were still compatible with it... So I eventually installed seven and all of the updates required for seven to get it usable on the modern internet. And then after some benchmarking I realized 64-bit version of Windows 7 ultimate was a lot bit slower than the 32bit version. So now that computer is dual booting the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows 7 and I could be happier because everything works. So right now my list of operating systems that are great on Old hardware... 1. Windows 8.1 , 8 or 7 2. Windows Vista 3. Haiku 4. Any OS/2 derivative 5. A beta version of longhorn 6. Any modern Linux