Hi! I can confirm the issue about Microsoft and WinXP (no longer supported and affordable). The issue rised more protests when users face a 'mandatory' upgrade to the last version of win (more people complained 'it looked like mandatory to upgrade the system, but when I did, many things stopped working..').
I am since about 10 years a happy and proud user of Xubuntu (xfce desktop environment). It is stable, complete and light (X 14.04 runs well on my Intel Centrino pc). Furthermore you can change wallpaper and icons to make it look like WinXP. It can be, obviously, used in dual boot with Win. If you want to give it a try, the best solution is to make 2 partitions: root (for the system) and home (for data and configuration files); then you can reinstall or change your os, keeping safe your data and configurations. LibreOffice is stable and works very well with Xubuntu. Libreoffice by itself is the natural choice of linux makers and partners. Paolo On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 8:20 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: Hi :) That would be a brilliant way to have it in the longer-term. I've not managed to get Virtualbox to use a proper hard-drive rather than it's own internal image of a drive but probably because i only had a very brief stab at it. Microsoft prefers that people leap fearlessly into the void with absolutely no idea whether their new system will work or not. That has kept many people firmly chained to Xp. I prefer the gentler approach that Linux offers :)) It's one of the many reasons i am happy i made the journey. I still do use Windows but increasingly rarely. Regards from Tom :) -- 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
