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What Linux distribution would a WinXP user install? Ubuntu 4.10?
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Actually Debian stable with a lightweight desktop is doing great on these computers. It is the 90s computers that are too old for any recent linux distro. That said if the gpu/cpu is that old, you are very limited in games, more limited than with WinXP.
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off topic: As long as distros keep pushing out i686 builds it is honestly entirely possible to get by on late 90s hardware. I've played around a bit with SATA-PATA adapters, PCIe-PCI adapters and it's kind of amazing what can be made to run on such old platforms.
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Actually I've ran into MANY games that work better under Wine than they do in anything newer than XP. Interstate '76 is a prime example.
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Oh come on. Those were completely different days. Though I'll give you the slowdown after updates. I remember having a speedy laptop on SP1, then getting SP2 and my boot time practically tripling IIRC.
XP was the last version of Windows I used extensively. I still have no idea what they were thinking with the skin and colour theme. I moved to the Mac around 2005 and then a few years later became the Linux nerd that I am now.