Linux Mint has very little learning curve transitioning from XP. I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 on a 13 year old Dell desktop computer. I had tried Ubuntu early on, maybe version 7, on a win98 system P2/350 if I remember. Then when XP blew up on me on this Dell and they were talking dropping support I put 12.04 on it and have been happy ever since. I admit though, if you have a home server, remote printers or an otherwise complicated network, you will spend some time on the forums looking for help communicating with devices hooked to other machines. But, and this is the bottom line, once you get it working for you, it will be nearly bulletproof. I personally haven't had the update roulette you get with Windows where you get an update and something stops working. Or you upgrade to a new Windows version and suddenly find there are no drivers for your perfectly good older printer. Oh, and someone else mentioned, it's free unless you want to pay for support. Usually, for the home user there's no need as the forums for most Linux distros are pretty helpful people, kind of like here.
On a final note, I spend hours each month keeping my wife's win7 machine updated with all its programs. The Ubuntu machine is set to download and notify. It runs in the background and downloads whatever updates are available for ALL the programs on the machine, email, browers etc. All I have to do is tell it to install them. I may spend 10 minutes a month telling it to install updates.
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