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Originally Posted by Two Rivers
That Ubuntu looks kinda interesting. Where do they make there dead presidents?
Will it screw up my computer and will I have to reinstall XP in the end?
Anyone use it for the long hall? I like free but am skeptical.
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You can run it off a disk or thumbdrive to try it out. You can also install it alongside Vista, it will make a partition for itself.
I did just that a week ago. Was visiting family in FL and my SIL's laptop was running so slow it was unusable My brother had taken it into work for his IT guy to look at. Paid him $50 and the guy turns around and tells him the hardware is toast.
I ran Malwarebytes and it took 24 hours to complete then crashed while trying to remove what it found.
So I put Ubuntu on alongside Vista and under Ubuntu it worked flawlessly. Was my last day there so told my brother to find his Vista disk and do a clean install or just wipe it and reinstall Ubuntu.