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Cheers. Vista still boots ok and work fine as we don't use it for anything too intensive but it is getting slower. Part of the reason is also that Firefox, Norton etc aren't supporting it anymore so it makes sense to upgrade before it gets to risky to use for online banking etc.
Lubutntu looks nicer than Puppy Linux to me but I'll get them onto a USB stick and see what they are like.
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Here we are:
2GB RAM
Pentium SU4100 1.3 GHz
From around 2008-10 iirc.
https://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-x420-14-p-su4100-vista-business-2-gb-ram-250-gb-hdd-series/specs/
On Vista it was close to unusable - think 5-7m start up times, making tea while waiting for word to open, etc. Now start up is fast and it's perfectly decent for personal use and a bit of word processing.
Libre Office is much better than the Abi stuff that came with Lubuntu. Calc will do Pivot tables - you just use a different tab to get to it. It will also sync Web data to sheet.
I'm actually now looking at changing to regular Ubuntu as I found that Crucial do a 120GB SSD for £25.