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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I plan on running XP Pro Service pack 3 until I die or become too senile to work a computer. I have visualized it under Oracle's Virtual Box, it'll transfer and run on any x86 machine running virtual box. Works just fine under Mint Linux.
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You're not seriously going to tell me that you're going to install Linux onto a computer, only to have it run VirtualBox with Windows XP inside it, using the virtual machine as your main operating system?
In that case, good luck. After supports officially ends, most newer programs such as browsers will drop support for Windows XP too. After some years, you'll be stuck with *very* old programs. Even web browsing will become hard, if the programs don't support updated standards.
You could at least switch to Windows 7, and run that up until 2020. Even while I'm not too big a fan of Windows 8's default modus operandi, it can be made to work like a "normal" Windows, if you clear all the tiles from the Modern UI, and then install a start menu replacement that can also block/replace the gestures, boot to the desktop immediately and disable all the hot corners. One of those is Start8 from Star Dock.
You'll basically end up with a very flat and 80's looking Windows 7.1, but it will be supported to at least 2023.