[ansel12]

For someone that doesn’t want to use his old XP computer and won’t be using it, but does want to get on it only to google for computer answers, and to download a free security program to repair his real computer, what is the simplest, easiest OS for that?

I put Cinnamon on one, and don’t like it, is there a simpler, easier to understand OS that is still secure enough for this simple task?

[ShadowAce]

If you have a DVD drive on that computer, use this list. You burn the ISO image to a disk and boot from the DVD. It will give you a full-fledged (albeit kinda slow, due to DVD spin speeds) desktop that you can use to perform your basic searches.