You can't sensibly run BOINC on a netbook - it wants your spare CPU time - but you won't have any to spare.

Hard to see a use for 32GB of RAM, unless you can find a suitably greedy game.

I'm writing this on a 4GB dual core netbook with Firefox - and its sluggish compared to a similar sized Desktop.

@ lucmove:-

Even as a long-standing Puppy user of several years, I wouldn't disagree with that. It's very different to mainstream Linux - so different, in fact, that it's considered 'odd' by most - but it's certainly very addictive.

I won't recommend Pup to beginners, and in fact won't volunteer advice unless the individual has made it clear they're serious about getting something to work. One thing's for sure; no two individuals have the same requirements for an OS, nor the same usage pattern when they've got it running. But the Linux eco-system is so vast, and so varied, that it would be truly surprising if most people can't eventually find something they like.

Pup has the distinction of making truly ancient hardware still usable; it's the only thing that'll run with any stability on my 17-yr old Dell laptop. A P4 and 512 MB of RAM makes you rather inventive, to say the least. But on new hardware, especially a top-end machine, it's SO fast its feet don't touch the ground. We have at least 2 forum members who both bought top-end System76 hardware, 32 GB RAM, Intel Corei7's/i9s, pre-installed with Ubuntu.....and the first thing they did was to wipe Ubuntu off the drive, because they hate it - followed by installing Puppy in it's place. You'd call them 'strange'; personally, I see them as folks who know what they want.

As for 'walled garden', well; let's just "agree to disagree" on that one. There is nothing a mainstream distro can do that Puppy can't. Stat.


Mike.

Tried antiX/Mx Linux?

Yes, I did - for about a year. Following which, I returned to what I know and like, Puppy.....for the exact same reasons that I gave up on Ubuntu originally; totally fed-up with all the usual sudo, apt-get, can't do this, not allowed to do that, shit.

Don't need 'protecting' from my own 'foolishness'. I've learnt to be naturally careful, using Puppy, running as root; too much of that crap blunts my 'savvy', y'know?


Mike.

Famous last words?