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Have several PC's all windows based of one form or another. Oldest is a 15 inch laptop which had XP (Dell 600m w/ 2GB ram) and I wiped and loaded Win 7 home premium. The previous version along with the current has the svchost piece of crud which uses up all the memory. Use to work great with XP but now its a turd. Only use it in the shop for iboats, OSO, email and the like. Don't play any games or stream video. So figure I going to get another and have thought about Linux and Scott mentioning it maybe that's the way to go.
Found the download site for https://www.kernel.org/ and latest stable version is 4.1.6. There are other sites which mention Ubuntu and others. Found two sites which have ready made laptops and desktops ZaReason and System76. So would it be best to get one preloaded or find computer (leaning again toward laptop) and cheap windows and reload?
Linux is compatible with Symantec. right?
Found the download site for https://www.kernel.org/ and latest stable version is 4.1.6. There are other sites which mention Ubuntu and others. Found two sites which have ready made laptops and desktops ZaReason and System76. So would it be best to get one preloaded or find computer (leaning again toward laptop) and cheap windows and reload?
Linux is compatible with Symantec. right?