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Answer» Hi everyone, The liitle thing is slow. As far as i know this is because of its frequencies.. Yes, mostly, but your OS is probably bloated as well. Quote My question is: would i benefit from installing linux? Would the little bugger get faster? Would there be any drawbacks to having linux on it? I assume that you are not gaming on that thing, so yes, I think you should. If you've never used linux before, it will take a little getting used to, but you will still be ABLE to perform the tasks you normally would, just in a different way. I would try Kubuntu or Puppy. Ubuntu is good too, but I prefer the Kubuntu interface. (Kubuntu is technically Ubuntu with a different look)I did actually game on it (poor thing had to work really hard but I no longer do that since I have another bigger pc. Do you think the improvement ( speed and responsiveness) of it will be at least NOTICEABLE? Couldn't I have both OSs installed? It's got 2 separate hard-disks... Thanks G.If you ask me, (which nobody did, but I'm going to ANSWER anyway) if you have to ask "Will Linux work for me?" The answer is probably no. And to be fair, nobody can answer that question for you, anyway. Only way to know would be to try it and see; it might, it might not. Quote would i benefit from installing linux?There is no real benefit from installing Linux compared to other Operating Systems. Quote Would the little bugger get faster?It might. but it might even get slower; depending on the hardware and how well it is supported, as well as how many distros you're willing to try. I'd say that whatever you do, try it with a Dual Boot with Windows 7 as you have it now. Quote Would there be any drawbacks to having linux on it?Plenty. 1. You won't be able to run windows applications. While there are a lot of Open Source equivalents for many popular applications, the truth is that the vast majority of software is crap. Whether it happens to be Open Source seems to change that opinion for some people, but it's still true. WINE can be used to run many Windows Applications, but I personally feel that defeats the purpose, and also WINE just introduces it's own set of problems. Quote Do you think the improvement ( speed and responsiveness) of it will be at least noticeable?Any speed improvement you see, unless you happen to choose a distro designed to be super fast and light, will not be as a result of using Linux over Windows but probably more simply the result of the Linux installation being a clean install, whereas the Windows installation was bogged down with manufacturer-installed crap. Installing Linux/FreeBSD on such a machine is far easier than getting a Windows CD to do a fresh install of Windows, though. Just wanted to add that I tried Ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook that is running the dual-core atom CPU and it ran ok, but I had driver issues with trying to find a wifi driver. I ended up having to use a wrapped ndis driver for the wifi device to get wifi to work. Definately not something that a person new to Linux would want to be up against, unless they like a challenge. For better performance I downgraded from Windows 7 and 1GB Ram to Windows XP Pro SP3 and 1GB Ram and its a screaming machine now vs when it was running 7. 1GB of Ram is not enough for Windows 7 to perform well... I always suggest 2GB minimum for Windows 7. Also the Intel Atom Processor line is not a speed demon CPU anyways, its a CPU that was designed to be an electron sipper for netbooks to last longer periods of time on their batteries as well as not pump out lots of heat like other processors. They are a GREEN Processor that are best suited as a non gaming CPU, and used for web surfing, work type apps that are not CPU intensive, and watching a movie through netflix etc which just about makes them break a sweat. Quote from: nixie on November 12, 2011, 03:20:06 PM
My netbook has the same specs as the OPs and it runs Windows 7 starter quite well. Of course, it's NOWHERE near as fast as one of my desktop computers, but I wouldn't describe it as slow. Quote from: nixie on November 12, 2011, 03:20:06 PM Just wanted to add that I tried Ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook that is running the dual-core atom CPU and it ran ok, but I had driver issues with trying to find a wifi driver. Really? What brand of netbook is that? I've installed Ubuntu on Acer and HP netbooks and didn't have the first problem with drivers. Toshiba Netbook is the one I had issues with wifi and linux, but I still have that wrapped driver in case I ever need it again. And yah as far as speed goes that was my comparison as well was compared to my desktop system. I'd rank the Atom processors as P4 speed equivilant even though they benchmark better than a common P4. I did squeeze out better performance by going into the bios and making the CPU run full speed vs throttled to save power.gia003, you should try a few linux distributions (like Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE) from a live USB stick; you can use unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) for that. Boot from the live usb stick and start exploring that distribution: see if your hardware is recognised and working correctly, perform some basic tasks and get used to it. If you like it, then go ahead and install that distribution permanently to your hard drive. If you don't like it at all, then go back to Windows; but give Linux a try at least. Personally, I'm very confident to say that any of the distributions that I suggested above will work out of the box (= your hardware will be working fine). |
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