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First I'll briefly describe the current situation.

I dual-boot between Windows 7 and Windows Vista. I have around 10 GB available to install another OS on there, so I thought why not a Linux distribution.

My questions/requirements are the following:

  • The Linux distribution should be modern and be GUI based. Something along the lines of Ubuntu (I have some experience with v9.04).

  • It should not mess up my current boot setup.
    I want to keep Windows 7 as the default choice, and keep the Windows 7 boot manager as the default.

  • It should be reasonably lightweight. I have a modest setup: an Intel 1.8 GHz single-core CPU with 2 GB RAM.

  • Preferably, it should install as easily as something like WUBI for Ubuntu...

PS: This is on a laptop, so the driver support on the distribution should be good enough.

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merged by Sathya Nov 10 '11 at 6:47

this question was merged with Leightweight Linux distro to install on my old PC [closed] because it is an exact duplicate of that question.

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