my system is old, running a hyperthreaded single core P4, 1.5gb memory, GF 6600 GT and a Creative Audigy soundcardInstall Windows 98 and play the old mechwarriors.
1) I am a life long Microsoft OS user with only momentary experience of other operating systems so differences in interface need to be fairly easy to adjust to.
1) I am a life long Microsoft OS user with only momentary experience of other operating systems so differences in interface need to be fairly easy to adjust to.
Ubuntu.
Quotemy system is old, running a hyperthreaded single core P4, 1.5gb memory, GF 6600 GT and a Creative Audigy soundcardInstall Windows 98 and play the old mechwarriors.
One of the things no one warns you about Ubuntu, you'll need to search the internet to find out how to get the damn thing to not automatically assign itself as the default OS on bootup once you've installed it. And then you'll have to go through the unnecessarily complex task of setting it back to Windows (assuming that's what you want). It's a lot of trouble for something you should be able to do Grub in the first place!
No idea if the other distros have the same annoyance.
And I wasn't aware that changing one line in /etc/default/grub (two lines if you want to change whether it shows the GRUB menu by default) and then running "sudo update-grub" was an especially complex task.
I don't see any problem with it setting itself as the default OS (I would expect that of every OS that installs its own bootloader).
And I wasn't aware that changing one line in /etc/default/grub (two lines if you want to change whether it shows the GRUB menu by default) and then running "sudo update-grub" was an especially complex task.
I said unnecessarily complex. And it it. Any sensible operating system would give you the option to permanently change the boot order in the boot loader itself. Why the **** should I have to load the operating system I don't particularly want to use in order to make it not load?QuoteI don't see any problem with it setting itself as the default OS (I would expect that of every OS that installs its own bootloader).
Quite frankly, I do. If I'm installing a program on Windows, I get all kind of annoyed when it decides "Hey, you're installing a media player so I'm going to grab all the media associations for myself." I doubt I'm the only one. But when an OS does that, well it's okay.
1) I am a life long Microsoft OS user with only momentary experience of other operating systems so differences in interface need to be fairly easy to adjust to.Linux Mint would be a good choice, as mentioned before; considering your system specs, I'd recommend the MATE or Xfce flavours. Alternatively (or while waiting for the new Mints), you can try out Lubuntu and/or Xubuntu for a (slightly) different take on the desktop environment.
2) my system is old, running a hyperthreaded single core P4, 1.5gb memory, GF 6600 GT and a Creative Audigy soundcard
One of the things no one warns you about Ubuntu, you'll need to search the internet to find out how to get the damn thing to not automatically assign itself as the default OS on bootup once you've installed it. And then you'll have to go through the unnecessarily complex task of setting it back to Windows (assuming that's what you want). It's a lot of trouble for something you should be able to do Grub in the first place!
No idea if the other distros have the same annoyance.
Strongly recommend you use Mint rather than an Ubuntu variant. Canonical are trying to turn Ubuntu into an Apple-style walled garden, you don't want to end up inside that.
I'm actually starting to hate ubuntu. I have middle fingered Microsoft for decades, but damn their OS is really stable nowadays. Can't say the same for Ubuntu.i've been using kubuntu at work for the past 3 months and had... "mild" annoyances with getting some up to date / out of repo packages (svn post 1.6, google chrome and yes i know there's chromium, but i need to have chrome too)
I'm actually starting to hate ubuntu. I have middle fingered Microsoft for decades, but damn their OS is really stable nowadays. Can't say the same for Ubuntu.
Can you dual boot Win 8 and Win XP?