My router has a pretty descent firewall so i feel like it should be safe? Maybe. Obviously I won’t be signing into any online accounts or anything like that on the XP machine. Is this a bad ideas? Obviously using Windows in general is a bad idea but I’m sort of limited by the hardware here.


Install Linux Mint.
Lighter than it ought to be.
Runs on potato.
This potato only has 512MB of RAM.
And you can’t boost it to 2g or 4g? Probably time to let it go, unless you want to run Damn Small Linux?
I have Fedora 6 disc set, if you need to get started with an older kernel?
I could and probably will upgrade it to two GB which is the maximum it can accept. Hopefully that’s not difficult to obtain.