Posted by TomH in PA on January 24, 2016 at 05:30:18 from (67.234.43.122):
In Reply to: Re: OT: Linux posted by MarkB_MI on January 24, 2016 at 04:02:12:
"having first installed Red Hat back in 1997"
Ha! Beat you by a couple of years; first time I installed it was from a stack of diskettes a friend loaned me (13 I think) back in '94 or '95.
Live DVDs are a good way to try one out but keep in mind they're slow compared to an installed system. My suggestion is to install Mint and try it out, the old XP installation is toast anyway.
Another nice way to try out distributions is to run them as a "virtual machine" on your main Windows computer. It's free, but it takes a little more fiddling to get started. Once you have it set up it's much faster to install different operating systems. Virtual Box
Finally, if you do decide to install linux on the old computer I suggest buying a new solid state hard drive. The old hard drive has to be getting close to failing, an SSD is way faster and won't cost much.
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