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> My guess is that GNOME 3 and Unity require roughly as much CPU power and RAM as Windows 7 I have a 7 year-old Dell laptop that wouldn't run Vista with anythi
by dodders 11y ago
> My guess is that GNOME 3 and Unity require roughly as much CPU power and RAM as Windows 7
I have a 7 year-old Dell laptop that wouldn't run Vista with anything like acceptable performance. I installed Debian/KDE and performance is absolutely fine.
The only tricky bit (as other comments have pointed out) was the wireless device driver, which I had to download from the Broadcom website.
- auganov 11y agoI think Windows 7 generally runs better than Vista. IIRC Windows 8 should also use less ram than 7. My Dell Inspiron Mini 10 ran windows 8 smoothly, just couldn't run Metro apps because of the low resolution (there's a minimum res required).