[wilnj]

We have an old PC that my son want's to setup in his room.

It's a HP Pavilion with Pentium E5300 (W) (2.6GHz /800 MHz) 2 MB L2 cache; Dual Core (65W) processor and it's maxed out with 4GB of RAM.

Any suggestions on an alternative OS to Windows that I can load instead to make better use of it's limited resources?

I've looked into Chrome OS but he wouldn't have access to the Google Play store for apps so I'm not sure how much of an upside that would be other than the fact that he's already very comfortable in that OS from his usage in school and a Chromebook at home.

I've also looked in the various Linux OS' but there's so many, I'm not sure which would be most appropriate.

In the short term, I don't see him using it for much more than school work and web access.

Thoughts?

Also, I need to add WiFi to the PC. Looking at adding a PCIe adapter but I'm having a tough time finding one that explicitely states it will work in Windows 7 and Linux. Any cause for concern?