From: MrPounder@RationalThought.com
"Thane" wrote in message
news:dJqdnQdfed51BnLOnZ2dnUVZ_qydnZ2d@earthlink.com...
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 18:34:43 +0100, Mr Pounder wrote:
>
>> This computer is now over 7 years old and has served me well. Due to the
>> horror stories about Windows 8 I'm hoping it will last until Windows 9
>> is out before I buy a new setup. If 9 is junk then I guess it's Windows
>> 7.
>>
> I had the same concern with my WinXP machine when Vista was released. The
> issues were a) I was happy with XP, b) Vista required much more memory
> and processor capacity than I had available and c) initial report on
> Vista were not comforting.
>
> Instead, I looked at switching to Ubuntu linux which will run on older
> machines and was close enough to WinXP that the transition would be
> simpler. I've since brought up my 2002 machine as a dual boot XP and
> Ubuntu and I find now that I use Ubuntu much more than the XP. This is
> easy to do, but if you'd like to try this, download the Ubuntu 10.04
> version to a stick and boot from this to try rather than installing. A
> 4GB stick will happing run the entire distro and includes Open Office and
> many other free programs. The learning cycle was fairly straight forward
> and mostly point and click.
>
> I've also a newer machine with Win7 but it requires newer hardware to be
> efficient. I expect Win 9 will continue the same trend.
>
>When my faithful Windows 98 (which was never updated) would not download
>many things I had to do something. I'd heard all about Vista. The bloke in
>PC World sort of looked at his feet and muttered something like "don't do
>it". All the XP machines had been pulled off the shelves so I got a bloke
>to build this one for me.
Cheers, but I've looked at Ubuntu and I'm not keen.
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