End of XP Support
How important is this to me as a casual user? I have XP on my two laptops, and it works great for us. We have MSE installed and I understand that will be supported until 7/15. I also have AVG. What ch...
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powderman426 wrote:bkbonner wrote:
Depending upon what you do, take a look at Linux Mint. I run it with the Cinnamon GUI which is similar to Windows. I use it for software development, running Google's Chrome Browser and other things. It works really well, has good support and will run on just about any laptop that runs XP. You can burn it to a DVD and run it live from the DVD w/o even installing it to try it out.
Or Ubuntu. Someone stated that seven will run OK on an older machine. It may run, but it most likely won't be fast as many older machines only had one gig of memory and the minimum for seven is two. Linux on the other hand requires less memory and will run relatively well on half a gig. Try it. It's free and easy to setup and use.
I'm considering Linux for my old xp laptop that I use for surfing the web in the evenings but I know very little about it. I take it Ubuntu and Mint are just versions of Linux? And there are different GUI's for each of these versions of Linux?
Will firefox work in these operating systems? Does it look the same as the firefox used in the MS OS? Does Linux require virus/malware software and all the related management of that kind of software?
I guess I should just put it on a disc and give it a try. If it boots to the disc and runs from the disc is there virus/malware concerns given that the underlying XP OS and installed virus/malware software will not be running at the time?
