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Originally Posted by Daveinfl
I already installed Linux on an older system I did not want to sit and collect dust. I can surf, email, youtube pretty much everything a xp system could do and it is much harder to get a virus/spyware on it so it stays fast! I have installed it on other machines for other people and so far they love it! oh by the way, the operating system is free! Have a great day, Computer Dave.
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I took the same approach on an old laptop of mine. Tested it for a few months off and on. Then started using it full-time.
I am running the firewall (
gufw) and the antivirus (
clamav/
calmtk) on it.
ClamAV is not a real-time scanner, so there isn't much overhead unless a file scan is running. One can schedule periodic scans of the file system.