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...
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