05-10-2017, 04:40 AM
[member=6921]Nickman[/member],
Adding my 2 cents here. You should be fine with Linux Lite on that machine and it will probably run much quicker than Win 7 Starter. A few years ago I loaded LL on an HP Mini similar to yours (1GB ram, Intel Atom, etc.) for a friend's daughter to use at college. It ran very well on it and she was able to do everything she needed to do, even though her college also said "Microsoft only" -- (complete nonsense!). (Also, she had never seen or used Linux before, but had no problems at all using LL.)
One more thing: in all likelihood that machine is not using UEFI firmware, so no need to worry about disabling it. Even if it is using UEFI, since the CPU is 32-bit the firmware is already set to run in "Legacy" mode because Windows won't run in UEFI mode unless it's a 64-bit version running on 64-bit hardware. So either way you don't have to tinker with the Bios/UEFI settings to install LL.
Adding my 2 cents here. You should be fine with Linux Lite on that machine and it will probably run much quicker than Win 7 Starter. A few years ago I loaded LL on an HP Mini similar to yours (1GB ram, Intel Atom, etc.) for a friend's daughter to use at college. It ran very well on it and she was able to do everything she needed to do, even though her college also said "Microsoft only" -- (complete nonsense!). (Also, she had never seen or used Linux before, but had no problems at all using LL.)
One more thing: in all likelihood that machine is not using UEFI firmware, so no need to worry about disabling it. Even if it is using UEFI, since the CPU is 32-bit the firmware is already set to run in "Legacy" mode because Windows won't run in UEFI mode unless it's a 64-bit version running on 64-bit hardware. So either way you don't have to tinker with the Bios/UEFI settings to install LL.
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