Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

As someone who manages dozens of dual-boot machines for the University 
Of Wisconsin-Madison, I think you guys are greatly exaggerating the 
difference between Win7 and linux. Win7 anddebian stretch/mate are about 
the same. Ubuntu bionic and Win 10 are about the same.


On 12/3/18 11:47 AM, kendell clark via orca-list wrote:
> Hi
>
> I’m with kyle on this one. On a machine like this, a more resource 
> friendly desktop, like mate, or gnome flashback, if that’s what it’s 
> called these days will work wonders. Ubuntu mate is an option although 
> I’m not sure how resource efficient their inidicator stuff is, although 
> it’s probably much better than any windows version, which tends to pack 
> every possible feature one could possibly need, most of them meaning 
> nothing to most users into an installation.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kendell Clark
>
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> *From:* orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> on behalf of Kyle via 
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> *Sent:* Monday, December 3, 2018 11:25:32 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros
> John G Heim via orca-list aliandika:
> > You'd have to run Win7.  For people like me who absolutely have to run Windows 
> > once in a great while, Win7 is the answer.
> I pity the person who has to run even 7 on such a machine. I upgraded 
> the OS on
> a similar machine that was running 7. Took somewhere around 5 to 7 
> minutes just
> to boot up. As resource intensive as it can be, GNOME was a huge 
> improvement on
> that machine. But I still wouldn't run anything virtualized on it. Your 
> best bet
> on a machine like this is to run a dual-boot configuration.
> Imetumwa kutoka hali ya hewa
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