My router has a pretty descent firewall so i feel like it should be safe? Maybe. Obviously I won't be signing into any online accounts or anything like that on the XP machine. Is this a bad ideas? Obviously using Windows in general is a bad idea but I'm sort of limited by the hardware here.

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

Install Linux Mint.

Lighter than it ought to be.

Runs on potato.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    This potato only has 512MB of RAM.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    And you can’t boost it to 2g or 4g? Probably time to let it go, unless you want to run Damn Small Linux?

    I have Fedora 6 disc set, if you need to get started with an older kernel?

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