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Title: Urgent PC Request
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Published: May 21, 2012
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Post Date: 2012-05-21 10:51:03 by Eric Stratton
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My laptop just shit the bed.

It's fine, it's 7+ years old (or maybe even 8+, not sure it's been so long) and I've gotten far more than average life out of it.

Nevertheless, it needs to be replaced. It's the physical aspects of it that are crumbling, not the internal or s/w ones.

All I really need is a "blank" laptop since all the new ones come w/ Windows 7 which I hate.

I own XP so I can reinstall that over anything that I buy. But where can I get a list of which programs work w/ Linux? Should I consider using Linux? (I don't need a litany of reasons, just whether or not it's practical, etc. I know it's better by my understanding than Windows.)

I still use Outlook Express, which XP supports. Can it be run on Linux?

... or should I just buy a plain laptop and install XP over whatever's on it?

I'm so confused ...

: D

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#13. To: Eric Stratton (#0) (Edited)

Actually Windows 7 isn't that bad, it is better than XP, but of course it is far from perfect and still not even close to as good as Linux and probably never will be.

With VMware I think you can run Windows XP on Linux so that will let you run any windows program, it will just be slow because of the overhead.

Outlook is not needed on Linux though since many distros come with Thunderbird which is probably even better than outlook. I can't say for sure, I have never used outlook much.

If you are still using XP and don't mind it, they you wouldn't mind windows 7 either because it is faster and more secure than XP. I use Ubuntu Linux for most of my web surfing, and some web development, but for any .NET development, I use windows 7 since Mono, the open source .NET framework, is behind the curve of the latest version Microsoft puts out, which of course only runs on Windows operating systems.

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