From: f8boe@bluemail.ch   
      
   Irwell wrote:   
      
   > Any XP users migrated to this OS.   
   > How does one tell whether to use a 32 bit or 64 bit version?   
      
   Hello,   
      
   Hmmm... Another fork of a fork of a fork of Debian...   
      
   As other said (wrote) here, take care... The desktop environment is what   
   makes a computer fast ... or not!   
      
   Zorin seems to have a flavour of Gnome 3.x, which is not really good for   
   older hardware to keep performance up. Problematic is also KDE 4.x.   
   These DEs are really overbloated as windboobs 7 and up, and will not fare   
   very well on netbooks out of the box or everything beyond highend i586/i686.   
      
   Other distros give the possibility to choose some lighter desktops such as   
   LXDE, based on Gnome 2 or 3 but running faster with less eyepopping   
   gimmicks... And adding the minimal packages from Gnome or KDE let you run   
   all the applications you want from these two major DEs without all the CPU   
   loads of them.   
      
   As for 32 or 64 bits... It depends on the architecture of your processor.   
   And if you want to run some 32 bit applications like Skype, you can also let   
   your system install the needed 32 bit libraries to run them.   
      
      
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