On 28/10/13 09:27, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 28 October 2013 08:59, Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk wrote:
The only distro *I* can think of which fits your upgrade worries is Debian
The only place I use Debian in anything close to a "raw Debian" format is Raspbian, and even then almost entirely at a commandline level.
How easy is it for an XP user to use?
I used it straight from Win 2000 and it was fairly intuitive. It's a great deal easier now.
Basically: I need to install something (dual boot with XP) that they can and will use, and that will stay up to date and secure without further intervention from me. If they don't "take" to it then it's a waste of everyone's time and worrying about upgrade cycles is irrelevant!
You can lead a horse to water...
On my old full tower it is dual boot with XP (under Grub), and boots into Debian by default.
This fliptop is dual boot and defaults into Mint, but Debian can be fired-up if required. I haven't used Win for agesandagesandages - and that only for Irfanview. (I don't like The Gimp for adjusting graphics...)