Comment Re:Uh, unless you're a programmer... (Score 1) 766
My Widows 7 laptop with 2 GB of memory that runs beautifully says you have no idea about the system requirements for Windows 7. Further, Win7 runs totally fine on a 32-bit platform, provided it meets the other system requirements. I've done that on a different machine. I've also run 32-bit Win7 on my laptop, for a little while (Mostly because I wanted to futz with the release candidate, but the 64-bit ISO I was getting from MSDNAA wasn't installing). Heck, my laptop doesn't even have a discrete graphics card, it's integrated. It's a 2.5 year old laptop that came with Vista on, and it runs great in Win7.
(Now, why do I run Windows? Gaming and that all the digital design classes I'm taking in University use Quartus and ModelSim as their standard tools. Both programs that have free versions for Windows but no free version for Linux. And it's not worth my time/effort/frustration to buy Quartus or learn a different set of software. And that Remote Desktop between two Windows machines is amazingly simple to do, and RDP is on every Windows machine ever.)
(Now, why do I run Windows? Gaming and that all the digital design classes I'm taking in University use Quartus and ModelSim as their standard tools. Both programs that have free versions for Windows but no free version for Linux. And it's not worth my time/effort/frustration to buy Quartus or learn a different set of software. And that Remote Desktop between two Windows machines is amazingly simple to do, and RDP is on every Windows machine ever.)