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My 2 Cents

On 5/26/2017 10:30 AM, wrote:
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?

Linux Mint on the TV computer... windows7 here, rasperian on a market
tracking Raspberry pi 2, Vista on a laptop that will soon be Linux Mint
or maybe duel boot to Mint. I've put Linux Mint on other computers for
friends and set it up so they can easily use it. Once you get it
down... you'll be glad you did. Google and Youtube is your friend... go
for it. You can put Linux on a USB and boot from that to try it out and
learn the ropes then install it if you think it will work for you.