Mike Woods writes: > On 27/03/14 11:48, Smylers wrote: > > > My mum has a laptop running Windows XP, which she's happy with > > except that support for XP ends on April 8th, and she's asked me > > what she should do. The only Windows computer I've ever owned ran > > NT4, so I'm in turn seeking your wisdom. > > > > I think Mum uses web-based stuff, WordPerfect, and scanning. I'm > > guessing that the laptop hardware is of a similar vintage to XP > > itself. > > Have a look at zorin it's pretty much designed to replace windows with > windows users in mind,
I'm pretty sure my mum would be fine with any mainstream Ubuntu variant. Note my concerns weren't about the OS's user interface, but scanner support and a couple of decades' worth of WordPerfect documents. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
