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		iradik on Dec 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Windows so slow? Hmm.. I've had an opposite experience on an atom netbook. Tried Windows Vista and Ubuntu on a netbook. The Windows netbook worked great while Ubuntu regularly would crash. Ubuntu on the netbook was unusable. Now probably I did something wrong? But just installed the latest version with default settings. Anyway I returned the netbook.

reledi on Dec 19, 2011 | [–]

The author has an issue with speed, not stability.

alextingle on Dec 19, 2011 | [–]

Were you running compiles on it??

iradik on Dec 19, 2011 | [–]

No I was running a web browser and a chat program.

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