Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Netbooks largely fell to the wayside, but are they still any good? Most Netbooks struggle to run any version of Windows. But how do they run Linux? Anti-X Linux is known to be VERY lightweight and fast, but even I was surprised at its performance on this HP Mini 311 Netbook. The Mini 311 is not a particularly high end Netbook (if there is even such a thing), sporting just 2GB RAM and a 32-Bit Intel Atom 1600MHz microprocessor and Nvidia Ion graphics. Somehow, Anti-X manages to fit in that measely amount of memory with extreme ease, not ever paging to the 5400RPM 160GB drive in my testing.
Netbooks largely fell to the wayside, but are they still any good? Most Netbooks struggle to run any version of Windows. But how do they run Linux? Anti-X Linux is known to be VERY lightweight and fast, but even I was surprised at its performance on this HP Mini 311 Netbook. The Mini 311 is not a particularly high end Netbook (if there is even such a thing), sporting just 2GB RAM and a 32-Bit Intel Atom 1600MHz microprocessor and Nvidia Ion graphics. Somehow, Anti-X manages to fit in that measely amount of memory with extreme ease, not ever paging to the 5400RPM 160GB drive in my testing.
