I have an older Compaq laptop with a Turion64 cpu and 1 gb ram. My son uses it to play games online nothing big just facebook games, Disney.com, nickjr, and the 1st COD. It has windows xp home edition and I was wondering if Ubuntu would be a better option over windows because this thing gets bogged down by windows. With the amount of RAM windows uses up plus the shared ram for video there just isn't much left for everything else. A friend recommended Ubuntu saying it's less of a memory hog than windows is and would run better on this older laptop. I'm trying to figure out if this is true or not before I wipe everything out.