“Thinking of changing an old laptop’s OS from Windows to Linux?
Don’t do it until you read this. The benefits, the pains, the
arguments, and the results. It’s possible, but will everybody like
it? Read on to find out.“My girlfriend has had an old Unisys laptop for about half a
year now after I brought it home from work. Because of its limited
system resources, Pentium 166, 64MB Ram, 1.6GB hard-drive, she’s
only been able to run a hacked together version of Windows
95/98…”
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