My kids PC seemed to have got itself in a bit of a mess and was in a deadly constant reboot cycle... reboot, windows starts, then reboots, etc. I guess it was because they often just power it off at the mains instead of shutting it down properly.
It's a very old laptop with XP on it (legal XP key on the bottom too). But I couldn't find my XP disc so thought I'd try throwing Linux on it. They only tend to use browser based games on it anyway so the OS isn't too important.
The 32bit version of Mint Cinnamon went on there without a hitch. The laptop only has 768 mb RAM and a 1.7ghz single core P3 in it. It installed perfectly first time and managed to get every single driver installed without prompting. When Ipreviously installed XP I'd had to download loads of extra stuff to get it working.
I guess a more modern version of Windows would also install without assistance but I doubt it would run very well on those specs. LM Cinnamon looks far more modern than XP and my son actually prefers it.
On a device such as this where only the browser is important I can't see a need to ever consider Windows.
It's a very old laptop with XP on it (legal XP key on the bottom too). But I couldn't find my XP disc so thought I'd try throwing Linux on it. They only tend to use browser based games on it anyway so the OS isn't too important.
The 32bit version of Mint Cinnamon went on there without a hitch. The laptop only has 768 mb RAM and a 1.7ghz single core P3 in it. It installed perfectly first time and managed to get every single driver installed without prompting. When Ipreviously installed XP I'd had to download loads of extra stuff to get it working.
I guess a more modern version of Windows would also install without assistance but I doubt it would run very well on those specs. LM Cinnamon looks far more modern than XP and my son actually prefers it.
On a device such as this where only the browser is important I can't see a need to ever consider Windows.
