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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Didn't choose it. My friend said it would be best for my Dell Optiplex computer that runs XP.
Mint is not in the Ubuntu family? I've heard of Mint but very little. I thought it was just "buntus" (U, Xu, Lu etc.). Linux as a whole is still a little foreign to me. (But I'm learning.)
Yeah, but I heard the OS is prone to a virus without the new updates. Isn't that the case?
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Any Dialect (U,X,E) of Ubuntu runs on Optiplex, Dimension (I have a 4600). . . 512M to 1G RAM is very good
Download the Live CD's (may be DVD's now (some of that bloat I mentioned) ),
Boot each (no install needed) and try the UI for best fit
Mint is a spin off of Ubuntu (back to the cleaner UI roots). Boot the Live CD of that for a spin.
The cost: Blank Optical media and Bandwidth to download
BTW I use the Live CD's to fix Windows
XP is not
prone to virus. Users are prone to doing the questionable stuff (windows specific) virus writers love
'Look-out' express for mail. YES!
Clicking on 'You have WON!' while browsing. (or any of thousands of other
socially engineered messages.)
Visiting XXX sites (who leave you with another kind of STD )
I hear of people running XP totally bare of security SW an surviving. Not me, but I do run minimal configurations and let my Eyes avoid the traps. I also use a Text only e-mail program configuration)
3 virus in 15 years of Windows (the payload for one was delivered by...NAV checking for virus)