03-29-2014, 05:48 PM
Today Yahoo Tech Column is promoting Windows 7 and Mac as "better" replacements for Windows XP. Rafe Needleman at [email protected] wrote that Win8, Chromebook, staying with XP and Linux are all "bad ideas". He wrote that Linux is "for nerds", implying that Linux is for nerds only. My wife is very definitely not a nerd and she has been using Ubuntu for years and now uses Linux Lite. Learning Linux is no more difficult than learning XP. Set up for the first time user is the only problem, just as it would be for Win 7 and Mac. Win7 is too slow and Mac is too expensive. In my opinion there are several lightweight Linux distributions that qualify as excellent replacements for XP.