I have XP and it works great. It does everything I want and need. I am used to its look and feel. It’s like a great pair of broken in jeans. If there are no holes in them and the pockets hold my wallet, comb, and keys why put on a new stiff scratchy pair?
And after April 8 it will become extremely vulnerable to attack.
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My XP Pro machine (love it) is now off line. Anything connected is with a separate machine running Mint 16. I also have a Win 7 Pro PC with Mint and my “no Linux equivalent” Windows applications running under Wine.
Except for two ham radio programs that have to have Windows, I can be pretty much Windows free.
XP updates stop as of 4/2014, so any holes found after that date will go unplugged.
The reason I upgraded to 8.1 late last year.