Which Linux for Notebook and Candy Crush Saga?

r2015

With Windows 10, check what is hogging the resources in Task Manager. It's likely to be some Windows updates which take about 10 minutes on a fast computer to complete - so I would imagine longer still on your slow computer.

Something else to consider is updating the drivers. I find Snappy Driver Installer Origin very reliable for this task and simple to use.

Ensure Windows 10's power settings aren't set to put the computer to sleep after something like 15 minutes. Then leave the laptop connected to a power source for as long as it takes for Task Manager to show a settled down computer - ie: not much resources being used.

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.


Still crap

Stoke

r2015 wrote: »

that is another failure, won't even boot from the USB, sits at a flashing cursor.

Sounds like you made the USB pen wrong or with the wrong file system? Did they have a proper installer? I just use the image because I'm on Linux.

Isn't there a dual boot installer? Use that

poppellerant

r2015 wrote: »

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.


Still crap

Just realised that laptop has an Atom CPU, if the specs I saw are correct. You are going to have to be more patient with the machine or be realistic and understand that it's poorly specced.

One last suggestion is to keep Task Manager open, then run run Disk Clean-up and select all options. The CPU usage will probably go high for a while if this is the first time you've ran Disk Clean-up, but bear with it.

psychic_teabag

If remix OS isn't working, could try the base http://www.android-x86.org/ project from which (I guess) it was derived. That says their focus is the eee pc (also atom based), then other pc platforms.

For the flashing cursor during boot - it depends at what point that appears, but if it is using a graphical boot-loader, it could be missing support for graphics card, in which case http://www.android-x86.org/documents/how-to-boot-the-android-x86-live-cd-when-you-have-problems-with-your-graphiccard might help. (I assume it's telling the kernel to use safer settings.)

I did install android-x86 on an eeepc a very very long time ago (when I was doing some x86 android development), but replaced it with proper linux when my project finished. (I still use that eeepc to this day, even if others consider it under-speced.)

Johnmcl7

poppellerant wrote: »

Just realised that laptop has an Atom CPU, if the specs I saw are correct. You are going to have to be more patient with the machine or be realistic and understand that it's poorly specced.

This is a crucial point as it's not just an Atom processor but one of the original pre-Baytrail designs (the Baytrail and after Atoms were a significant improvement) which were extremely poor performers in their day, never mind seven years later.