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I'm with Andrew

Sleightholme I think you may have missed the point slightly.

I use Windows on a daily basis but recently I built a modest pc from components I had kicking around the cupboard.
These included an old GeForce MX440 (64mb) 768mb DDR1 ram and an old AMD XP 2000+ cpu on a cheap motherboard.
I installed Ubuntu and used Gnome as my desktop manager.
Even with all my favourite compiz effects enabled (3d cube, wobbly windows etc.) the machine never skips a beat.
I regularly use the Gimp in place of photoshop and open office instead of Word, Excel etc.
If I were to use Vista on this machine it would slow to a crawl. I know this because I recently installed Vista on my tablet PC which is of similar spec to the Ubuntu box and it was completely unusable.

I agree that Windows Vista with all the eye candy enabled looks good. But there's no way you'll get any of it working on older hardware. With Ubuntu you can save that old machine from the skip and still get a fantastic desktop experience without having to invest in 4gb of ram and a quad core CPU.

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