Posted on 12/16/2013 7:23:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
uh, if you have not updated that machine in 6 years and it is on the Internet, it is owned by a bot network and is doing a lot of processing for other people.
I mainly use it for typing up lesson plans at work and web surfing at home. I can’t do any gaming on it, I have to use my desk top for that.
Loads of luck getting drivers to support those old cards.
There's only one UNIX-core OS that solves all your problems and makes all the complaints you have above vanish the moment you turn it on. It's also free. Way more people are using it than Linux, and they love it. They wouldn't trade it for anything.
Microsoft calls that a “business opportunity”. I call it legalized extortion. . .
You might be surprised to see that some ATM’s and ticket selling machines still use O/S2
I had a client who shut down their servers for the first time in over five years due to electrical maintenance in the building. Once the old machines cooled off they were done. The hardware wouldn’t turn back on.
Most XP users are in foreign countries because XP has a lot of language options. I wonder how much software in foreign countries can be upgraded to a newer operating system?
I watched a South Korean show about a cyber police force tracking down hackers, and most of them were using XP. Crazy.
This is a good time for Linux to make a push.
oh by the way...
I don’t know if this is true, I doubt it.
Koreans use Internet Explorer, its the law
http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2010/02/24/no-choice-insouth-korea/
http://www.zdnet.com/south-koreans-use-internet-explorer-its-the-law-7000022827/
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I am highly doubtful of this. For instance the company that makes a word processor program in Hangul (written Korean) produces them in PC, Mac and Linux versions.
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Apparently most Koreans are still usin XP. Sounds crazy but if it ain’t broke why fix it?
I’ve retired a few brain cells since I used Quarterdeck.
“I’ve been moving all of my company computers to Apple.”
Exactly what I’m doing. Microsoft can kiss my backside as I walk away. Tired of being a microsoft consumer/debugger.
with so many flavors of Linux I am surprised someone hasn’t come up with a way to allow a family to use the same computer with each having their own OS.
Mommy turns it on and types her passcode and Cinnamon MINT comes up. Daddy gets Ubuntu. Little Timmay gets Edubuntu.
and big sister Teena gets Dream Studio.
My old Vista laptop had a harddrive failure. New HDD, clean install of Ubuntu. I love it.
I wish I still had my old XP machine
I played USNF ‘97 for hours and hours and hours.
anyway get a Linux live disc and you can use them online.
Windows2000?
and you are admitting that?
just kidding
Ubuntu is linux so you can’t do a lot of games, you can use OpenOffice or LibreOffice like a charm, works great. Internet is easy and fast and no worries about a virus.
People use Linux so they can hold up their noses and tell everybody that they run Linux. As a Desktop OS it’s beta quality and your experience is typical. The live CD’s do make a very good rescue disk, though.
And how about my recording and music playback software?
sorry about all that
Ubuntu Linux works fine for me. I simply had to install a fan driver and a printer driver from HP and it was all set.
My first computer was a Tandy 386 with a 25mhz processor running Windows 3.1.1 or something like that and around 100MB harddrive. I remember deleting a game to play a different game. lol. I remember watching the defrag process and seeing bad sector this and bad sector that. I had to install more RAM, a new sound card and a new modem (33.6) to do anything with it.
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