I would like to introduce you to my laptop; a 4 year old HP Pavilion dv4. So far all the models made by me for CF 2.0 were created and rendered on this.
Now that i have built my own gaming/editing rig, this noble machine will no longer be needed.
As you can see above, my poor Core 2 Duo reaches temps that are sufficient to make some morning tea by just browsing the internet. I mean 50 - 60% CPU usage for watching youtube videos? Dafuq?
I have considered doing many things with this laptop rather than simply binning it; such as making it a Wifi extender, a home server, an HTPC or just simply taking the very organs out of it putting them into my desktop. But i guess i still need something to carry around with me for my school projects and i have no intention of buying a totally new laptop just for that, nor buying a new activation code for this current one.
So this shifts my attention towards install Linux. Linux Mint 14 to be exact. As my laptop becomes older, so does it's mighty processing power (hurr durr). Linux caters to such a non resource intensive environment. All my documents are done on google docs, so Microsoft Office was never in the picture.
My question is:
Does anybody on this forum use Linux? (dont tell me on your Android phone, I mean as a proper OS on a laptop or desktop -_-) If so, how is your experience with it? How is the GNU interface? Should I change over to Linux?
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- maybe u can find a cheap upgrade somewhere.
