[Pollard]

Yeah I’ve run Win in virtualbox but never did figure out how to get USB ports working which I’d need for my auto repair info and scantool along with special drivers for the scantool usb adapter so I said screw it. I can reboot in under a minute since Kubuntu shuts down in about 5 seconds. This Thinkpad W530 + Kubuntu with Plasma desktop is the fastest most stable system I’ve ever run.

BTW, KDE made a lightweight browser called Falkon. Pretty basic but pretty fast. Supposed to use less resources than firefox/chrome. Whatever extensions are available are built in and you just enable/disable them and one of them is Adblocker. I haven’t bothered importing bookmarks or anything. I use it mostly for streaming video. Does well with that.

[Bikkuri]

To get the USB working, you need to install the "Guest Additions".

I remember having that same problem, and there was very little help online at the time. Thankfully, there is much more information about that nowadays.

Thank you for the inofo on the new browser.. will check it out 😉

[daniel1212]

"Kubuntu with Plasma desktop is the fastest most stable system I’ve ever run."

My most recent choice, since I like the KDE desktop the most. But I do not install proprietary codecs due to the unresolved legal issues.