Not to prosyletise too much; you really should try Ubuntu. Download the installation iso from Ubuntu.com and try it running from a disk before you install. Unless there are specific Windows-only apps that you need, just about everything you want can be run as an equivalent. Firefox and T'bird can transfer their content to the new versions. Libre Office can be set to save files as Office versions by default. Filezilla is a cross-system FTP app. Plenty of other apps in the repositories.
As a bonus, Ubuntu seems to use much less of your machine's resources to run. It speeded up the start on an old netbook using XP from "press the button, then go and make a cup of tea properly and I might be ready by then" (really) to about 40 seconds. On 08/04/2014, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support > will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at > the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, > B S. Given one has one's own virus protection and spam-blocker, that is. > > Anyone else have more educated opinions than mine? I SO don't want > to give up XP... > > ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
