Man, Linux sucks big time.
I use Mandrake 9.2. The gui is dog slow on my Pentium II 350 + 128 mb mem + ATI Radeon 9200! Okay, it doesn't recognise my video card but surely, on standard vesa 1024*768 mode, it should run fine, shouldn't it?
I mean, win 3.11 works flawlessly at a resolution of 640*480 on my 386 laptop!
and btw. AmigaOS is way much more user friendly than Linux.
I firstly used MSDOS, so I am not biased.