Linux is only good for hacking

No stupid it's specifically made to make you irresistible to women.

hackin'

For programming then?

Sure..

That's what hacking is. And Linux is actually great for programming. Cracking is the avoidance of security to gain illegal access to files etc.

You. I like you. I've only had the windows do that to me on one computer, a dinosaur I put Lubuntu on. Dinosaur as in 256MB RAM, 1.something Ghz processor dino

And catzombie, your faggotry is showing.

I'm surprised it actually turned on haha

The beauty of lxde! It's my father's computer and he really only watches porn and sends emails on it

S'pose!
It might have a great desktop...but does it do more than watch porn and send emails?

please tell me you don't watch it together :P

It does everything you want it to. LXDE is meant to be relatively light weight and uber easy on resources, for older machines. Everything runs relatively smoothly (till there are like 6-7 applications open but he doesn't do that. Only when I have to do shit on it and over- multi task it's simple little processor). He can have 4 or 5 borswer tabs, thunderbird (email), and watch a video (or 3) in those tabs and be pretty good. Hell, these are the system requirements for LXDE:
Processor: Pentium II or above (Fatehr has a Pentium IIII )
Memory: 45Mb (running) (He has 256)
Disc Space: 750Mb (running) (120GB or so)

I thought about putting damn small or feather linux on it, but that's not quie necessary.
Feather Linux:
CPU: I486 or higher
RAM: 16mb for console mode, 24mb for graphical mode
HDD: 50mb

Fuckin linux man

That's mental! Might have a gander at getting that myself. Means I can probably buy a cheaper laptop too, and just use this one for programming and recording.

I'd go with Xubuntu then. It's ubunt upackaged with the light weight (but not quite LXDE and much more beautiful) Xfce environment. 512MB RAM reccomended but "...it works on 256MB too". I sued it on my own desktop for a while simply because it's s oclean and nice looking and runs extremely well.

LXDE and Xfce though both already feel remarkably like windows when it comes to the desktop, placement of the "taskbar" pe se, and how it can be configured. My father (57) bitched excessively about Unity (till I leanred about the other environments) and after 10-15 minutes of pissing around with the costumization in LXDE it looks and feels just like Windows 2003 or so. But prettier.

Okay, i'm done being a linux fanboy. If you need any help with any of this or have questions etc you can message me, and the people at ubuntuforums are helpful as hell.