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To Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu; that is the question.
AdeV:
I don't think Microsoft really care about XP any more. From what I can tell, if you can get XP installed using a key - whether it be a real valid one, or one you "found" somewhere; it will activate just fine.
Of course, there's likely to come a time when the old activation website disappears, and after that date no XP installation will activate.
TBH, I am finding that Windows 7 is growing on me - although some of the thing it does I still find incredibly stupid and annoying - the irony is it's just had a bit of an epi fit so I'm writing this on my XP machine!
superc:
If you liked DOS, you will love Linux. Check around there are flavors other than Ubutu. Suse, Red Hat, etc. Nothing like the joy of a black screen and a blinking cursor waiting for you to guess what string to type. Not as bad as the MS blue screen of death, but amazingly close sometimes.
There are really several really annoying aspects to MS's decision to terminate XP support. Maybe a silver lining somewhere down the road like there was for those who did and still do hang out in the Win 98 world if MS releases the XP source code.
I really hated doing the switch to XP from 98. Hung in there and ignored Windows ME. But finally went XP just in time for SP2. Years later I am still on XP. Got my machine tweaked perfectly. Spouses machine runs Vista. Four years ago I bought 7. Can't tell you how sad I am to learn this useless 7 CD won't install on an original XP machine. I need new video cards and all that. MS advise, buy a new machine (and maybe 8 too). Pfui to that.
If you are running XP and it isn't running right and it isn't about not enough RAM I truly like Reimage Repair. Biggest issue I would see with doing that would be getting the no longer available from MS security updates into the machine after the Reimage Repair. I'd talk voice to one of their support people first before doing that. Pretty sure they probably worked out a solution by now. My suspicion is you have services running that you don't need, or a registry issue, or some hidden malware somewhere. AVG, SuperAntiSpyware, JV16, etc may help you find the problem. In the meanwhile go into Start - Accessories - System Tools - System Information - Tools - File Signature Verification Utility. Insert the original XP installation disk into your CD reader. Close the screen that comes up. Now run the System File Verification Program. Could be some of your system files picked up a lil corruption over the last decade. SVF will catch and replace them with originals from your CD. You can also do the same thing with a freeware program called Dial a Fix available from http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Dial-a-fix but only for XP or 98. Use the tools feature of dial a fix and purge the sfc files, then run the checker. Should take about 20 minutes. Then reboot.
I've got got SUSE hidden on this hard drive as an alternate boot in case of MS problems, but have to acknowledge I have my XP so nicely tuned that it's been at least 6 years since I needed it.
Biggest problem I had with Linux was many of my plug and play peripherals (including my modems(!?!)) wouldn't run with it. Check that issue out before installing. Nothing worse than having a working machine that can't go on-line.
I am going to hang XP at least until MS releases their Win 9. I have played with 7 and 8.1 machines and I am not impressed.
CrazyModder:
As far as I'm concerned, 7 is today what XP has been when 7 came out. That is, rock solid, reasonably quick, and just perfectly fine if you want to stay in the Windows world (2GB RAM might be useful though :) ).
I've skipped Vista and 8 - it seems like every second version of Windows seems to be just fine, and every second one in between totally crap. :bang:
awemawson:
My choice would have been to stay with Windows 2000 professional - I found it the most stable running several pcs in a network. But as time went by more and more new software wouldn't run under it and thus I was forced into Win7, but some of the Panasonic Toughbook laptops I run in the workshop won't run Win7. It gets my goat that this 'progress' is really built in obsolescence.
Bring back CP/M that what I say :)
BaronJ:
Hi All,
You windows lot can keep it :lol:
I'll stick with Linux ! No worms, virus, trojan's etc. No hardware issues, even the live CD's talk to your router and let you surf the internet. Printers, I'm still running my old, very old, 30+ years old HP Deskjet 500 and my Cannon scanner. The list goes on and on. Linux just works.
Even Microsoft run Linux internally.
What most people don't realise is that in some form or other they have been running Linux for quite some time ! Dare I mention set top boxes for digital TV, DVD recorders, Sat navs... Not to mention Android tablet computers or Apple machines. One based on Linux and the other based on a Unix. Indecently the Internet is based on Unix.
People tend not to like change but if you get pushed to Win 8 its quite a different beast.
Having said that, Linux is not for everyone. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. :coffee:
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