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Bill[_47_]

Bill wrote:
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On Fri, 26 May 2017 12:46:46 -0400, Bill
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I can no longer activate Windows XP on my desktop computer, even
using the various go-arounds offered on the net. I can afford
Windows 10 and so on, but I have given too many hours over the
years to its Regedit, restore yada features. I do not need bells
and whistles. I need a decent word processor, spreadsheet, pdf
viewer. I have a small Chromebook as my second computer. For
anything serious, I can use my little Chromebook or go to the
public library.

I am ready to try a free alternative operating system, such as
Linux's Ubuntu.

If you use a free operating system, can you post your thumbs up or
thumbs down for it compared to Windows?
I have the "Mint" distribution. When you say "free", you mean you
won't
pay any money--and you are correct about that, but learning to use
Linux
will hardly be "free". Give it as try, you have your Chromebook as back
up. What do you have to lose?
Other than a lot of time and the rest of your hair???

He has been warned! : ) If he downloads Mint, then based upon my
experience, he should then head over to Oracle to download and install
their implementation of Java, the JVM.
I should add that doing this is free (the associated documentation
contains all of the details that you will need).