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Steam 'works'. The actual Steam client is fine, most of the games don't work on Linux though. Your best bet is Play On Linux, which makes running Windows games on Linux very straightforward. Don't expect it to work too great with new AAA games, but if it's a spare laptop I guess you're probably not able to do that in Windows either.

 

You do not need anti virus software, and you have my condolences for the lecture you'll get from Limpid for suggesting such a thing. ;)

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Yup, it has none of the Windows bloat, and it's pretty much as simple to use now (once you get out of some of the habits after years of Windows)

 

There's not a single thing, other than running games, I prefer to do on Windows now, there's just no need for it.

 

Here's the Steam list of games for Linux by the way, it's not particularly impressive, but there's a couple of good things on there. It's worth keeping an eye out for any Humble Bundles as almost all of the games that are on those work on Linux/Windows/OS X.

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I must do a 'how to run a Linux system' YouTube vid. Here's some commands you should learn and stick with. May look a bit funny to start with but the Linux CLI is the most powerful part of any OS anywhere.

 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install packagename
sudo apt-get remove packagename
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg --get-selections > package_list.txt
sudo dpkg --set-selections < package_list.txt
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
i=1 ; while [ $i -lt 100 ] ; do echo "Counting to 100: $i seconds" ; sleep 1 ; clear ; (( i++ )) ; done
zenity --info --text="Your copy of Ubuntu is genuine"

 

I could go on ;)

 

Oh, put an SSD in there to see it _really_ fly

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I have a netbook that's a couple of years old and it's slow as anything now. I have my iTunes on there, but other than that I use it for browsing mainly.

Would changing the OS be a good way of restoring some of the performance, and what would I need to do with any pre-existing software and files?

Not changed an OS before so a bit of a novice here...

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You can run most Linux variants (slowly) from a CD without touching your windows. You can play pretty much any media. ITunes doesn't install under Linux, there are probably workarounds or alternatives, it depends what you use it for.

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You can run most Linux variants (slowly) from a CD without touching your windows. You can play pretty much any media. ITunes doesn't install under Linux, there are probably workarounds or alternatives, it depends what you use it for.

iPhone. If there's a Linux equivalent I'm all for giving it a bash, the new iTunes is dreadful.

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Do you just mean music management? I think the iPhone updates software ota. There are many music management programs. Or you can use Google music.

You can use other music management programmes for the iPhone? Well there's something I genuinely didn't know. Thanks.

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Yeah in an enduring twist I've irony that I'm not happy with Google about, iPhones are better supported under Ubuntu than Android phones are.

 

If you plug your iPhone into Ubuntu it will just pop up with your music and the default Ubuntu music player can sync fine with it.

 

In fact, it allows you to see internal iOS filesystem folders that aren't accessible any other way.

 

Meanwhile, in Android land, we plug our open-source Linux based phone into our open-source Linux based OS and are forced to use a shit Microsoft protocol to transfer files which Ubuntu won't use unless you have less than about 2GB of files on there.

 

I'm nicking this rant for Google+ to have a rant.

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I actually got fed up of ubuntu 12.10 as it was running so slowly on my laptop, so I sacked it off and installed the lighter version - lubuntu 12.10. My word is it fast! The thing runs like lightning now.

If anyone wants to try ubuntu on an older machine, try lubuntu instead (can be installed via the ubuntu windows installer) and it'll fly like new!

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You could try installing netflix-desktop (uses a specific version of wine to get silverlight working) and use that wine / firefox Windows combination to load the SkyGo web site.

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