On Thu, November 2, 2017 1:03 pm, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Not intending to contradict (if that ends up as pain, it will be
>> your pain anyway ;-) but I would go higher with specs if you intend
>> to use Linux on it. Linux tends to grow its demands for resources
>> pretty much exponentially (same as Windows does, only from lower
>> starting point).
>
> On my Acer Aspire One 522 (two-core AMD C-50 1.0 GHz processor with 2
> GB of RAM), CentOS 6 is noticeably smoother than Windows 7. Windows
> uses the battery more efficiently, however.
And you are talking about 8 years old system on what would be called
decent hardware about the same 8 years back, right?
Valeri
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