Microsoft stoppoed updating Windows XP. It's been pre-advertised, so everyone knew about it beforehand.That you know of. We're not in the 90's any more, when a virus would usually announce its presence to brag. We're also not in the 2000's, where it'd immediately try to mail itself to everyone in your address book.
In my case, changing the operating system would mean buying a new computer, and it's outside my financial possibilities.
Am I under threat (and to what extent) if I'm very careful in my Internet browsing and I don't open emails/files coming from unknown sources? I've had Internet for possibly more than a decade, and I've never gotten a virus and I've never been hacked anywhere.
Staying on XP might not be immediately catastrophic but it's going to become more and more untenable as the system becomes ever more abandoned and exploit-ridden. If you really can't upgrade to a newer Windows, consider a lightweight Linux.
Try Linux mint, spin up a VM and try it, you have nothing to lose but several days of your time.
Try Linux mint, spin up a VM and try it, you have nothing to lose but several days of your time.
fixed that for you. i cant count the times things which would have been simple tasks on windows have taken me days to get working on linux systems. linux users are all masochists (sometimes you get a wizzard, but i hate to think of what they had to do to get to that point).
Try Linux mint, spin up a VM and try it, you have nothing to lose but several days of your time.
fixed that for you. i cant count the times things which would have been simple tasks on windows have taken me days to get working on linux systems. linux users are all masochists (sometimes you get a wizzard, but i hate to think of what they had to do to get to that point).
Good luck, have fun! (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml)Spoiler:thats how i started learning linux stuff
Try Linux mint, spin up a VM and try it, you have nothing to lose but several days of your time.
fixed that for you. i cant count the times things which would have been simple tasks on windows have taken me days to get working on linux systems. linux users are all masochists (sometimes you get a wizzard, but i hate to think of what they had to do to get to that point).
Good luck, have fun! (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml)Spoiler:thats how i started learning linux stuff
i think you may be exaggerating about the fun. every linux experience ive had has been horrible, and ive even had a few classes on linux. ive had the desire nay even the need to use linux, but ive never enjoyed one second of it.
i've been through two "emerge -e world" so far... usually i do it when a new major gcc version hits and recompile the whole thing overnight... ( i'm on funtoo btw )Try Linux mint, spin up a VM and try it, you have nothing to lose but several days of your time.
fixed that for you. i cant count the times things which would have been simple tasks on windows have taken me days to get working on linux systems. linux users are all masochists (sometimes you get a wizzard, but i hate to think of what they had to do to get to that point).
Good luck, have fun! (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml)Spoiler:thats how i started learning linux stuff
The stage3 install? Try the stage2 or stage1 (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_Install_Gentoo_Using_a_Stage1_or_Stage2_Tarball.3F) ones. :p
As an old Gentoo user, I can't think of a more terrifying command than:
emerge -e system
Quoted for the bloody truth...i think you may be exaggerating about the fun. every linux experience ive had has been horrible, and ive even had a few classes on linux. ive had the desire nay even the need to use linux, but ive never enjoyed one second of it.
weird, that's how I feel about windows.
Try Linux mint, spin up a VM and try it, you have nothing to lose but some of your time.OpenSUSE is another distro worth considering.
i've been through two "emerge -e world" so far... usually i do it when a new major gcc version hits and recompile the whole thing overnight... ( i'm on funtoo btw )Try Linux mint, spin up a VM and try it, you have nothing to lose but several days of your time.
fixed that for you. i cant count the times things which would have been simple tasks on windows have taken me days to get working on linux systems. linux users are all masochists (sometimes you get a wizzard, but i hate to think of what they had to do to get to that point).
Good luck, have fun! (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml)Spoiler:thats how i started learning linux stuff
The stage3 install? Try the stage2 or stage1 (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_Install_Gentoo_Using_a_Stage1_or_Stage2_Tarball.3F) ones. :p
As an old Gentoo user, I can't think of a more terrifying command than:
emerge -e system
rereading the bit about emerge -e system thing... stage3 has been a thing for how long now? 5-6 years if memory serves? when i first touched gentoo, it was already supposedly unsupported way of installing gentoo...
XP (and 2000) are deemed safe enough to be plugged into components serving nuclear reactors. good enough for me.
I think my main problem with Ubuntu was that my box has a Radeon HD4670, which because AMD is dicks is already on the "legacy driver" path. I had a hell of a time getting the official AMD-provided Linux driver to work right, and for whatever reason I had absolutely no luck with the open-source version. In the end I'm not even sure if I ever managed to get it acknowledged correctly, because just the basic Unity desktop was running ridiculously slowly when compared to a normal Windows install. I was just trying it out in an attempt to get a Linux promo item in Team Fortress 2, so after I got the game to load and grabbed the item, I gave up and uninstalled.Amd hasn't had the greatest linux drivers for a while. Nvidia driver support in linux is better. But, i no longer have nvidia hardware and am stuck with radeon onboard graphics. So far all is good. I hope **** doesn't turn up eventually :(
Someone mentioned Linux is for masochists and then someone else came in to drum Gentoo. Point proven. :sigh:In reality, i believe it more safe to say that the point was proven that just gentoo is for masochists.
Yeah. You could use DOS for all we care, as long as it's not physically connected to the web and you don't use USB sticks with it. In fact, it was still in use in at least one place a few years ago (I know, because my father, being old enough to be proficient with DOS, was called in to fix something on it. :) ) and probably still is. As long as the only way for a system to communicate with outside world is the keyboard and a display, the only security it needs is a good system password and a few screws (or a locker) to secure the case from being stolen. :)