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Zorin OS Lite and Education Lite
CPU 700 MHz Single Core - 64-bit or 32-bit
RAM 512 MB
Storage 8 GB
Display 640 × 480 resolution
Now to the nitty-gritty. Before going any further, to quote Wolfman,
“Preparation and planning prevent poor performance! 
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subtitled “Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail!”
To dual-booters, before doing anything to your Other OS, make sure it is up-to- date and you have a backup of your entire system, (at the very least your data) in the event something should go wrong, or to quote Admiral Jack Denver “Anything could happen in the next half hour!”. For complete system backup my preferred paid for option is Acronis (https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/ personal/true-image-comparison/), and best free option for simplicity of use, is redobackup (http://redobackup.org/). The pros of Acronis is that you can ‘squash’ a hard drive image to varying degrees of compression, but primarily its advantage is that it can do proportional image copying from a large to small drive and vice versa, redo has to be the same size of drive or bigger – it can not clone proportionally. There are other free ones too, Easeus (https://www.easeus.com/) and Paragon
(https://www.paragon-software.com/free/br-free/) to name but two. Whilst we are on the subject of backup, System Repair software is something to also have present: If you have Windows 7 or higher, make yourself a System Repair Disc now before anything else, especially notebook users who may not have access to Windows Media – Just enter ‘Repair Disc’ in the Windows Menu Search bar, it
should be the first thing to come up in results. System Rescue CD (http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/), Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/). For data recovery I would only trust one piece of software following a trial of its demo (I still don’t own a copy): GetDataBack for NTFS (et.al.) (https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery- software.htm)
If you are an existing GNU/Linux or Zorin OS user, backup your ‘/home’ folder/s (folders if more than one user) and be sure to use Ctrl+ H to show all your hidden folders to ensure your settings of currently installed apps are preserved) Please note that you cannot preserver your Printers, just as you can’t in that other OS, and if you installe 3rd party applications, make sure you have backed up any .deb file or .tar.gz or other file that contains applications from sources other than from the Zorin Software Channel or alternative Package Manager (e.g., Synaptic).