@tomxcd my first try at it was ubuntu 10.04 on a school laptop i had gotten admin permission on (which i wasnt supposed to have). This laptop was a Dell Latitude D505 with Windows XP, 512MB of RAM and in Intel Core 2 Duo and i ran it in VirtualBox. Bet you can guess how that went. IT WAS SHIT! Then i learned how to boot from a flash drive and use persistance and thats how i used the laptop from then on since Xubuntu was faster than windows even with running from a micro size flash drive