Hi Mark,
I'm using XUbuntu and LUbuntu, both well suited to Windows XP users with a similar enough experience and undemanding on hardware. Also I am running 12.04 LTS, which gets all the security updates to Firefox to keep that up-to-date (and the other packages, of course).
Good luck! Tim. On Oct 27, 2013 10:27 PM, "Mark Rogers" mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
I'm being asked quite frequently now for Linux options to replace XP.
What would people here pick?
Hardware will generally be pretty old so good support for older hardware is important.
I note that current Ubuntu versions only get updates for 9 months from release (ie 3 months after they cease to be current) which is fine as long as the next version updates smoothly, but that would depend on continued support for the older hardware, and I know from experience that updates aren't always smooth (typically graphics issues as an older card loses support). I can go with the LTS version of-course, would that be better?
Mint follows the same release cycle but doesn't (AFAIK?) provide upgrades.
There's no point replacing XP because it's reached EOL with a Linux distro that will go EOL a few months later unless updates are pretty much guaranteed to work without my assistance.
(I use Kubuntu in general on my own boxes and would prefer to stick with .deb -based systems, which rules out Fedora/OpenSUSE/etc.)
And then there's the choice of desktop - probably something less memory hungry than KDE - or do I look at MATE, Cinnamon, etc with which I have no experience?
I'm not great at Linux advocacy because I don't have the confidence in my ability to pick the right option for friends and family who "want" XP... -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG
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