[bicyclerepair]

Linux Mint blows all windoze away running on half the hardware.

Have dual-core winxp, win7, win8.1 all with 4gb ram.

Linux Mint running a single proc. with 2gb ram does circles around them.

[aft_lizard]

And that has what to do with this topic? I realize you Linux lovers are passionate but this is discussing the kernel number change for a Windows operating system, it does in no way discuss Linux, a comparison of it to Linux or any such sort.

[RayChuang88]

I'd recommend running Windows 7 with more like 6 GB of RAM if you want to keep disk activity reasonably low. My home computer has 8 GB of RAM installed running Windows 7 Home Edition (SP1) and it is fast, stable and starts and closes programs pretty quickly.

By the way, I'd probably recommend around 6 GB of RAM installed when Windows 10 finally ships to retailers probably around end of October 2015.

[Paradox]

I have Mint installed dual boot on my computer, its great!

That said, I am still eager to get Windows 10, have tried the preview and I really like it.

[fireman15]

Thank you. That is very interesting... I haven’t given Linux a serious try for a few years and eventually kept going with Windows because I was more familiar with Windows Applications and features. I have now become so much more familiar with Android devices that I think that it would be less difficult working with a different operating system.

Every few years it makes sense to take a fresh look at the operating system that you are using. A good time to do it is when Microsoft comes out with something new. So I think that your observation is appropriate. Linux Mint... I will check it out.