On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Munir Nassar <tclug at beitsahour.net> wrote: > that is funny, because that is not my experience with windows 7 at all. > I just installed Windows 7 Enterprise (not part of my job, but > sometimes you cannot help it) on a system with 2GB ram. It ran out of > memory and slowed to a crawl just doing the post install system > updates. Stock system. Nothing on it. Brand new hardware(and yes, i > have considered defective hardware but the symptoms are not that of > bad hardware). Perhaps I just got lucky with my configuration then? I dunno - I'm running it on fairly new hardware (SSD, i7 CPU, DDR3 RAM, yadda yadda). If you were running on old-ish hardware and slow disk, I could see either Ubuntu or Windows 7 being a problem.