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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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.
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.
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Define main computer.
The purpose of Linux is to run I/O programs, browers, e-mail, ect.
The purpose of XP is to run 20 years worth of existing,
paid for, software that works just fine. 16 and 32 bit software that was cut off at the knees by Windows 7's refusal to keep the 16 bit emulator.
And note, I always run a two machine setup with a KMV switcher. One for internet (the "dirty" machine) and one that is never hooked up to the internet at all (the "sterile" machine). Most of the time I'm on the "sterile machine". that's where my music library is, and most of my "brown and useful" software is (Word 97, video player, Finereader 9, et al.) Nobody looks "over my shoulder" at what I listen to, games I play, or work I do. They
can't. No I/O.
Total rig cost $500 USD...
So why should I care about Windows 8, or iOS, or Android....(or cutoff dates?)