I've got a P166 64mbram, 6gig gb with win95/linux. IMO win95 is a bit faster, but that's only if you a) hardly use it or b) clean it up every week. But, of course, Linux is far more stable, And is moron-proof, so any idiot who is used to winblows goes crazy because they don't know what to do. My sister goes into a fucking panic when she presses the wrong button which asks her for a root password. I love that.
Hopefully all my hardware of my new comp is supported by Mandrake, if so, i'm going to put it on my new comp, and i'm really gonna beat her up if she presses the reset button when she shouldn't have to.