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| 1311447 | 2012-11-10 06:29:00 | UBUNTU 12 is well supported and easy to use. It will run on legacy equipment quite well | PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 1311448 | 2012-11-10 08:04:00 | Yeah, but Ubuntu 12.xx will be a bit too heavy for the PC. | sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1311449 | 2012-11-10 08:49:00 | Something you can try -- locate an older version of Ubuntu, namely 10.4, then install this theme, deviceguru.com it looks and works near enough to Windows 7. I tried it quite a while back, and its very realistic. ( no idea if the downloads for the theme are still active, but the prompts in the in instructions on that page) The "down" side is any newer version of Ubuntu breaks it, so you cant put in anything newer after 10.4 even though Ubuntu prompts for upgrades . DONT do any updates or it will break. There may be some new themes available someplace, just do a search for something like make "Ubuntu look like windows" Edited: if you want to try it with the theme, heres 10.4 releases.ubuntu.com |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1311450 | 2012-11-10 09:11:00 | Not a good idea as the older releases will be unsupported for security updates | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1311451 | 2012-11-10 09:28:00 | Cant have your cake and eat it to :D The Op wants to use / Asked about Linux, but its not liked for various reasons, as it was said "Tried a few, Puppy Slacko Mint V13 and Mate. She don't like them... " So its a learning curve to use a different OS. ;) While theres nothing wrong with Linux, if a person is using Windows and wants to use Linux, then they have to expect some learning somewhere along the line. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1311452 | 2012-11-10 09:59:00 | Another that "kind of" looks like windows is Zorin OS. I tried it a few months back when it was mentioned here by someone else, but it froze and crashed a lot, so gave up on it, and reinstalled Windows 7 which ran fine ( same hardware). |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1311453 | 2012-11-10 12:44:00 | You won't get far with that. You will struggle with KDE (and probably GNOME 3).Recent versions of KDE4 will run quite nicely on that hardware - its resource requirements are much lighter than a few years ago when it was first released. I'd recommend you turn off desktop effects though (they're on by default) - if your graphics card is rubbish, the whole interface will feel very laggy / bogged down unless effects are disabled. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1311454 | 2012-11-11 01:05:00 | Recent versions of KDE4 will run quite nicely on that hardware - its resource requirements are much lighter than a few years ago when it was first released. I'd recommend you turn off desktop effects though (they're on by default) - if your graphics card is rubbish, the whole interface will feel very laggy / bogged down unless effects are disabled. It was a pain on an Athlon 3200+ about two years ago, while it worked like a charm on a core 2 duo though. Still, I'd hate to run it on ten year old chips even if it's significantly lighter. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1311455 | 2012-11-11 02:38:00 | It was a pain on an Athlon 3200+ about two years ago... I'd hate to run it on ten year old chips even if it's significantly lighter.It's improved a lot since then - these days it's actually lighter on resources than KDE3 was, and KDE3 was designed with ten-year-old (and older) chips in mind ;). Provided desktop effects are disabled, it should run well on that system. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1311456 | 2012-11-11 06:29:00 | It's improved a lot since then - these days it's actually lighter on resources than KDE3 was, and KDE3 was designed with ten-year-old (and older) chips in mind ;). Provided desktop effects are disabled, it should run well on that system. Agree. I am running PCLinuxOS on pretty much the same and it is snappy enough for me. |
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