So I basically gave my wife my laptop until she finishes her thesis because it has the same Microsoft Office setup as her desktop and with Thesis stuff, consistency is important. Her uncle had an old Dell Latitude work laptop with Windows 7 running on it. It ran really slowly, so I decided to try Linux again. I had last used Linux around 2009 or whenever the Asus eeePC first came out.
I went with Lubuntu, and I've been really happy with it. I have a few games on Steam that I play. I surf the internet. That's about it, but it works great for those two options. I can have several tabs open without bogging the machine down.
So I basically gave my wife my laptop until she finishes her thesis because it has the same Microsoft Office setup as her desktop and with Thesis stuff, consistency is important. Her uncle had an old Dell Latitude work laptop with Windows 7 running on it. It ran really slowly, so I decided to try Linux again. I had last used Linux around 2009 or whenever the Asus eeePC first came out.
I went with Lubuntu, and I've been really happy with it. I have a few games on Steam that I play. I surf the internet. That's about it, but it works great for those two options. I can have several tabs open without bogging the machine down.