Quote Originally Posted by Delsus View Post
I would actually bet its because Linux operating systems have alot less crap in them than Windows, freeing up alot of resources, Windows is full of things we will never need, look at the specs of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 and you will see the huge differances.
My old Pentium laptop running Ubuntu can actually probably keep pace with our laptop running i5 2410. >.>

I know it does run faster than Windows ever did on it!