David Cantrell writes: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:21:02PM +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > Note my concerns weren't about the OS's user interface, but scanner > > support and a couple of decades' worth of WordPerfect documents. > > Assuming that Ubuntu supports the scanner, WordPerfect could run > inside a WinXP VM.
Thank you for the suggestion; I hadn't thought of that. Does that avoid the security problems with running XP directly? Also, would the XP that came with the laptop work in a VM? When I most recently bought myself a laptop it came with Windows, and I enquired with knowledgeable Linux types about running it in VirtualBox. They said that the OEM Windows I had was tied to running directly on the hardware, and also its license wouldn't permit running it in a VM. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2