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 <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> 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 <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> > To: James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> > > > > > > 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: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > 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: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
