I installed Mandrake (for the first time) on my current PC about a year ago. After configuring the drivers and what not, everything seemed to work fine, but everything also ran HORRIBLY slow. It couldn't have been my PC, cuz I'm running an AMD XP 2600+ operating at 2.13GHz w/ 512 MB RAM. On this machine, XP can run several memory hogging programs without a single hitch. I couldn't figure out why Linux was running so slow for the life of me, so I took that bitch off of my hard drive. I may give it another go sometime, but I don't know.

Windows works for me. As long as you ('you' in general) aren't careless about your web surfing and installation methods, you don't really have to worry about all the viruses and spyware and whatever other overhyped crap there is.
clevemire Reviewed by clevemire on . If you would like to try Linux Hello if you don't know ever since I started dual booting Mandrake 10.1 this past year I have become a sort of Linux finatic. I now dual boot XP and Kubuntu, but it wasn't until tonight that I actually gave thought into trying KNOPPIX which is a Linux distribution that can boot and run from one standard CD. It is a great thing to try if you are looking into trying linux for the first time. It is very easy if you can manage to download one 700MB ISO image and burn it to a CD-Rom and configure Rating: 5