Re: Save Windows XP! The clock is ticking

Brenda Ann wrote:
> I have nothing personally against Linux builds... but they're totally 
> useless to me.  There is no software for my webstation that will run on
it, 
> nor are there versions of much of the other software I have and use 
> constantly.  Aside from that, as was brought up before, the simplest
thing 
> to do in XP is a major PITA in Linux, unless you are practically a 
> command-level user: Installing new software. I have tried at least 8 
> different iterations of Linux, and each of them has been a major
headache, 
> telling me things like "you need this file in order to install this
other 
> file" or simple networking that refuses to see anything else on our LAN 
> (though it does pop right up onto the web... )

One of many possibilities to ease that pain is Gentoo.

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