I was using my little vista 14" laptop to experiment with Linux 15 and 16 and could do a lot of things needed for just browsing, picture viewing, and document storage.
I hadn't tried any programs for video editing or office documentation, before I got a boot error... got mad and dumped the whole thing... come to find out, I think it was a hard drive error and not Linux, because a month later the drive crashed.
Well, I reinstalled my vista (took two days) and am using it now for my wireless D-Link security system (only 3 cameras at the moment). I am wondering if wine would run the D-cam software, since it is already loaded on the windows side, I might be able to just "link" it.
I believe I did a drag and drop on a couple of games I was playing doing that process (its been about 8 months so my memory fails).
I do believe I had to use firefox browser because of the 32 bit non-support thing. I am thinking of doing the dual boot thing again so I guess I will find out