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It fails right there. XP is a poor OS in general and is really poor for any low-powered system.
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I like XP for its ease of use. I have tried other OS including Linux but found I only tinkered with it. I always went back to Windows to do my real work.
I would love to use Linux but my frustration with it is that I never found any real help in learning it. Many Linux techies seem to be so anti-newbie that they either insult you for asking a damn stupid question or they will point you to a maze of "How To's". Sifting through these to find the latest information is impossible because so many are out of date. Rarely did I find a step by step guide for any given task so I could learn to walk before I could run.
I mostly had trouble with installing drivers -- a very simple task in Windows.
My life was made hell with having to type strange text strings at a command prompt only to be told "permission denied" or that I needed to run the app as a "super user".
And how do newbies sort out what apps they want? Many distros just install too many. I only want one graphics app, one cd/dvd burning app, one media player etc to get me started. Finding that I had half a dozen of each installed overwhelmed me in trying to sort them out. To see thousands of folders on the root and not knowing the purpose of so many of them is just too much.
