1. Desktop programs that’s remotely useful (ex: OpenOffice) will be most likely running slower than snail
2. The alternatives usually either as outdated, broken, incomplete or suck as the Windows equivalent

Ubuntu on a Celeron 1 GHz processor and 640 MB of RAM is fun. Fun as in the processor is always working on empty desktop. Yes, empty – a freshly booted one. And suspend doesn’t work either.

Also sir, no sane person without specific need still use 9x line of Windows. My Celeron 300 MHz doesn’t have problem running Windows 2000. And it can run Red Alert 2 and Office 2000.

WRT link above, apparently he loves contradicting himself

“Install. Reboot. Install. Reboot…aack!
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the odds are that everything will work as expected on a vanilla install. And if DSL doesn’t recognize it, use Puppy. If that doesn’t work, go with SliTaz. Failing that, install ubuntu-minimal and put Openbox on top of it. If all else fails, maybe Ubuntu GTK 1.2 Remix will work”

Apparently trying various Linux distros is faster than driver install + reboot

For example, would you rather use Abiword 2.6.8, or MS Word ‘97?
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maybe Ubuntu GTK 1.2 Remix will work

Thank you. I prefer Word 97 to GTK 1.2.

Have fun making that without Linux.

Because there is no *BSD