I have an old HP Pavillion that originally had Windows 98 on it, Pentium II, 64MB or RAM. There was very little software on on it, no spyware, viruses at all, and it ran Windows beautifully.
So first I put Ubuntu on it, what a mistake. Then I figured maybe it was Ubuntu, so I put Red Hat on it. Both of the OS's run terribly on this machine. Literally taking 4-5 minutes to open up a .doc document. 2-3 minutes just to open up an applett.
So my question is, is Windows that much better than these free OS's or do they just take some tweaking that I don't know about?