When comparing Windows XP vs Garuda Linux, the Slant community recommends Garuda Linux for most people. In the question“What is the best laptop OS?” Garuda Linux is ranked 10th while Windows XP is ranked 40th. The most important reason people chose Garuda Linux is:
Uses vram, and a zen kernel.
Specs
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Pros
Pro No Bloatware
Unlike its next gen, this OS has no bloatware included.
Pro Fast
It loads very fast, recommended for older hardware.
Pro Super-fast
Uses vram, and a zen kernel.
Pro Themes
The dr460nized KDE theme is awesome.
Pro Easy entrance to Arch Linux
Filled to the brim with lots of quality-of-life changes and optimizations that are simple enough for long-time Windows, long-time Mac users, and Arch newbies to understand. Though, it also leads to bloat or not necessarily helpful extra software. If you're not into the "bloat" added in, try checking out the barebones version, you'll need to know a lot of things bout Arch to fully use barebones.
Pro Highly customized interface
You already have most of the customization done for you out of the box.
Pro Unused RAM is wasted RAM
It takes just a bit more RAM than Manjaro. Edit: This statement is only true if it helps the user and since this could be running on a low end machine this will not.
Cons
Con Discontinued
Since April 8, 2014, support and updates for Windows XP are no longer available.
Con Absolutely absolete
It is just sort of a mozachism to use this os.
Con No software supported anymore(Almost)
Con Linux Zorin Lite is a much better alternative
Con Unsecure
Discontinued updates, after 8 years hacking it is a piece of cake.
Con Garbage, ancient, and slow
Con Needs a lot of RAM
Minimum is 4GB, for most Linux distributions it's 2GB or less.
Con Super
