> I wonder if recent Linux distros and desktop environments actually run better on 10-year-old hardware than Windows 7 One of my main machines right now is an

> I wonder if recent Linux distros and desktop environments actually run better on 10-year-old hardware than Windows 7 One of my main machines right now is an old HP workstation laptop that came out when Vista did. I can't run recent versions of Windows due to driver issues (random blue screens apparently due to the wifi driver; I only had a key for Windows 8.1 and the drivers were incompatible), but I can run Ubuntu perfectly fine out of the box with no special configuration required. In my opinion that is the biggest advantage to running old hardware with Linux - as long as you're not using oddball hardware there's a great chance it will run better than it would with Windows.