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On 05/26/2017 08:30 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?

Damn!! I missed this post!!! And everyone else had
a lot of constructive stuff to say too! Not fair,
not fair, not fair! What ???? I heard that! Life
is unfair ??

Linux is technically superior to Windows, and not by
a little, but by a lot. Now a days it is as easy
to use as is Windows too.

Check our the Live DVD's and see which one your like. KDE
was what Windows 7 was based on. Xfce is very sparse and
fast (my favorite), Gnome is weird for the sake of
weirdness (but some really love it).

Linux's downfall is the lack of applications. There is no
Turbo Tax, No Quick Books, No M$ Office (you can get it
to run under Wine), yada, yada, yada.

So it depends, a crappy OS with five different apps to
do everything and gets infected with the turn of the wind
or a technically elegant OS with sparse amount of apps.

Your choice.