I decided to take an online class in Hadoop. The course presented Hadoop in an Ubuntu Linux environment, so I installed Ubuntu's latest version on an old 4th Generation laptop that I had laying around that I use for international travel in case it gets stolen. It's like it has new life breathed into it. It took forever to do anything in Windows. In Ubuntu, it's not sluggish at all. I tried Fedora in the past and gave up in frustration. Ubuntu is a quantum leap better behaved. With the DisplayLink drivers, a usb docking station that is advertised as "only compatible with Windows" works rather well.