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Windows 8.1 runs pretty well on XP hardware, and Update 1 will run even better (minimum 1GB). You might have to buy a cheap graphics card. It browses much faste

by scholia 13y ago

Windows 8.1 runs pretty well on XP hardware, and Update 1 will run even better (minimum 1GB). You might have to buy a cheap graphics card. It browses much faster than XP on the same hardware. Otherwise, if you have people who wouldn't pay for a cheap Windows upgrade (launch offers), they probably don't want to spend a huge amount of time and effort figuring out a "free" Linux with all the other complications you mention. On their own. From scratch.

xtracto 13y ago
Just a couple of weeks ago I got for free a Pentium IV PC with 514MB of RAM and Windows XP. I changed the cmos battery, the AGP card and did a clean XP reinstall in an SSD drive. The computer is blazing fast. Any newer version of Windows would make the computer slow as shit. Here in developing countries, we people tend to use our stuff for a LONG time. You see 30yr old cars running around; 20yr old washing machines, which have been re-re-re-re-patched. Buying a new computer just because of some magical limit date, just doesn't cut it. Is it unsafe? maybe, but why throw something away when it is 100% usable!.