Took an old HP I have with an AMD dual core and loaded Ubuntu on it, I'm posting from it now. Was a little buggy installing, but once it updated it seems to be working well.
I'm gonna play around with it and decide whether I want to use it on more computers. It comes with a lot fo stuff pre-loaded; Firefox and Chrome,Libre Office, etc. Of course, I installed a media player called Banshee and am loading music files on it now.
To keep from losing the Windows install, I just plugged in an old 980 GB SSD I had and left my other hard drive in there. If this wrks out, might even do a dual boot setup.