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Originally Posted by vteco
I have a feeling you're probably going to like it. Particularly if you put it on an older computer that you might have given up on. It loves closet computers. For one of those, BionicPup or Fossapup would work great.
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It could even be my current computer once it gets older enough to justify getting rid of Windows.
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The latest and greatest computers are sometimes iffy to get working in all aspects, mainly because of the huge number of proprietary hardware bits stuck into them these days, complicated by programmable firmware, and closed BIOS's.
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New computers with some random Linux distro, usually Ubuntu, can be had in my country, so I wouldn't expect proprietary hardware to be much of a PITA. Windows still outnumbers Linux on new computers though...
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The reason a frugal install is actually better than a full one is that Puppy loads the entire operating system into memory when it starts up. This includes its standard applications, too (word processing, spreadsheet, browser, etc, etc). So you really don't need to take over the whole hard drive. It doesn't run from the hard drive anyway. Those few files it does install are big and contain the entire OS. But they can just sit as regular files in your old OS. They can sit as regular files in Windows. Or on a thumbdrive.
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The way Windows is becoming less user-friendly at each new version, I guess you would expect be to be willing to get rid of it entirely someday
