What is your operating system?

I tried Vista on a friend's laptop. His laptop had better specs than anything I had, yet Vista slowed him to a crawl. He tried to switch to XP, but the computer wouldn't let him, so I had him install Ubuntu instead. Ubuntu is lightning fast, and it's completely free.

Don't you find it slower than XP. I am yet to install Vista because of it's slowness. Anyway, it depends what you are habituated with.

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Vista sucks. Ubuntu rules. What makes Vista run on 768MB is the lack of the neat effects and all that junk. Ubuntu can run pretty much all of its desktop effects on 512MB. Granted, you need a good graphics chip/card, but you can say the same for Windows. Visual Studio is pretty nice, but you can't make Linux ports with it, and you can't make Mac ports, either. You need separate compilers for that. I would suggest Python. It is easier to learn, and it is platform independent, meaning it works on all OSs which support Python. You just distribute the .pyc files and/or the .py source files, and you're good to go.

I think it is somewhat troublesome to work on two operating system at the same time. I don't have any idea how linux works. Previously I had windows 98 and XP but later just XP.