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Originally Posted by pghaworth
Thank you! I'm laughing, but I'm pissed, too. I love EOL devices because no one gives a fig anymore.
Had a lovely afternoon - just after jbing my two Ks, my ancient desktop informs me that, due to several power outages, it no longer boots and is unrecoverable. Yay! I spent my day tsing to no avail. Upgrade time. 
Since it's old and general useless for anything except backups I'm thinking of setting it up to dual boot and try linux or ubuntu just for fun. |
Ubuntu IS linux.
Good choice, though if I may offer a suggestion... you will probably be happier with
Linux Mint. The traditional GNOME2 desktop, everyone's favorite, eventually moved on to GNOME3, which made no one (well very few) happy. Ubuntu has made even less happiness with their Unity shell.
Linux Mint has made lots of people happy with their Cinnamon desktop, and Mint is based off Ubuntu with Cinnamon thrown in. Much advisable, and gaining traction.
As usual, YMMV -- but I would take a look at it.
Also worth taking a look at is MATE desktop, offered by Mint, as well as available in the repos. It is a fork of GNOME2, updated to work with more recent systems, and quite nice also. But I have fallen in love with Cinnamon.