Hi :) hah, ok so Ubuntu 14.04's "Startup Disk Creator" only worked for a few of the distros i downloaded. No immediately obvious pattern wrt family etc.
Bodhi was amazing! A tad empty but looks intriguing, kinda reminds me of antiX a bit but is completely different. Mint Xfce and Mint Mate and Kubuntu were really fast! I'd heard the folks at Kde were working hard at making it faster and lighter but never believed it until i saw it racing along there! Regards from Tom :) On 23 April 2014 22:31, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > There is nothing actually stopping you from continuing to use Xp. > Something like 30% of desktops are still on Xp. > > Just take care to avoid phishing scams etc. Also consider a dual-boot on > it. > > If you want to give a Gnu&Linux a go then it's best to download (torrent > if poss) a few different versions. Ubuntu makes it easy to make a LiveUsb > to test-drive the distro. On 2 of 'my' really ancient machines all > different versions of Mint crashed or were horribly slow but that says more > about my machines than about Mint. On a merely fairly old machine it flew > along and looked really nice. Err, i only tried the cinamon, mate and kde > versions (to be fair that leaves xfce and debian to go) > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > > On 23 April 2014 22:16, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: >> CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...] >> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:10:24 -0400 >> From: Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> >> To: James Knott <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> >> >> James Knott wrote, >> > >> > I run openSUSE Linux on my computers and have for several years. It's >> > generally possible to to an upgrade as new versions come out. >> >> I'm thinking of installing Mint Debian to my (now defuct XP) desktop. I >> understand it's a rolling release, which should me continuous ongoing >> support. At least now I have an extra computer to experiment with and >> become even more familiar with that lovely little penguin. >> >> Virgil >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- >> unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> >> > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
