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Thanks for the food-for-thought, waregim.
As of now, there's no realistic alternative to change what I have now. I have three computers and I am living in a cramped apartment suite.
I know, I know, I have to change sometime, but for now, I think I need to put the money where my mouth is and bide my time. Rushing through anything just to put in the latest Windows is not realistic nor is it practical.
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(Feb 09, 2019, 03:45 am)RobertX Wrote: I'm using a Pentium 4 Prescott CPU ... So it's Windows 7 forever for me - until I build a newer computer.
A "stripped down" XP and a small SSD (or USB stick set as system drive) would do wonders - The full system with XNA, NET, VCRT, DX9, and some... That's too much for the poor old horse.
On the other hand, most apps (specially games) won't run well on that machine no matter which Windows, XP or 10. Office 2016 is heavy as Hell and don't even think on running the latest Tomb Raider...
(Feb 09, 2019, 03:45 am)RobertX Wrote: About the first remark, it was a joke ... but how would I know that you're not a MAFIAA member since I run pirated games?
Lol thanks, I know... but you can't know. ;D
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IIRC, XP doesn't support TRIM. perhaps that has changed. than again, SSD do garbage collection and writing speed isn't that important.
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The main thing is if you dont *have to* change : Don't.
I was probably one of the last people running Win98, and Win2000 before it was made totally unusable as a primary system. They are trying to do that with XP, but I can still surf the web, and even use Tor Browser on it. Fortunately I collected enough XP software!
I dislike Win7, and find networking with it to be a real b!tch, especially as I refuse to do things the way Billy Gates wants me to. No HomeGroups here....
However my personal machine will always have a Win and Lin boot, as each has its areas of strength. Plus I need to write dozens more scripts to tackle some of the collections from the torrents!!!!
Scripting can be done in Win, just easier in the Linux versions for things like Perl, an ancient language almost forgotten by Win after CGI web scripts became obsolete....
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Hey, I like Perl too! I had a chance to look at the technology in 2008 at a community college.
If you don't like Homegroups, you really don't have to use it to connect to other computers in a network. In fact, I have two Windows 7 computers in my household that aren't connected through Homegroups. However, if the Windows 7 hatefest is beyond just that, I understand.
Thanks for restoring my faith in old operating systems. I really don't have the inclination and the time to switch to a newer OS unless that OS happens to be Linux Mint.
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I have had nothing but problems with Win7 networking. Machines that will network some drives, and not others, despite being identical in settings, Perhaps not using passwords on the Win systems complicates matters, but they are useless and annoying.
CIFS on Linux connects sporadically with Win7 on the main system. Win7 will connect to the Linux share, but only read-only on directories which should be world writable.
WinXP does as its told, at least.
Perl is probably the best language for system administration, but it has been failing on the web site front since CGI fell on its face.
Perl6 is designed to be more 'modern' but I truly hate its module obfuscation.
Ruby is alot easier to learn, but not as straight forward due to its maddening 'versioning' systems. At least in Perl5.23 you can tell it to use Perl5.05 syntax and modules. But it does have entire website frameworks.
There are two different Pythons, and they are great for hacking endeavors, just not as 'intuitive' as Perl or Ruby. It also has a website framework, though it doesnt seem as 'spiffy' as Ruby's.
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it seems Win7 enterprise supports NFS, I'd use that if possible as it is much better than samba, unless you need printer sharing too.
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(Jan 24, 2019, 17:20 pm)Kotter Wrote: So I'm looking at turning one of my old PC's into a Linux Mint or a Zorin and was wondeing what people think of both those softwares.
I'm very new at it, and I've always wanted to try it so any suggestions help! (Also, need an installer that can do the work, I have no idea how to build it myself)
(the old PC is a Windows XP)
Not one person has asked the most important question: What is it that you want your listed choice of Linux to do? - or - What is it that you are considering working towards by using Linux? etc., etc.
Without that first assessment, there is no amount of posts that can help you until YOU figure out - or post - what it is exactly that you want feedback on - other than people posting opinions on the distro flavor that is posted.
If all you want is people's opinions on the 2 distros then I would go with doing a poll to keep it as simple as possible on the answers.
**Seems the topic got hijacked halfway through to personal stories and reply post conversations on things that have nothing to do with the OP's question or even trying to answer the OP's question.
I wish people would stay on topic and stick within the boundaries of the topic at hand.
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(This post was last modified: Mar 10, 2019, 01:55 am by RobertX. Edited 5 times in total.
Edit Reason: Correcting my classical faulty information.
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Carjacker's right; the topic has just left the building.
To be honest, I don't use Zorin because I never had to; I tried and liked Linux Mint first, and I didn't feel the need to use Zorin. That being said, I won't tell you not to use Zorin; by all means, try it.
A reason why I use Linux Mint is that it can be customised through third-party software. I know this isn't a fair criterion for judging an OS, but that's a great addition. I think Linux Mint is a great OS on its own (clean and uncluttered design for one, and codecs and DVD region-free support out-of-the-box for two), but a customiser like JLIVECD makes it even better. Besides GNU/Linux OSs come with third party software, so something like JLIVECD is fair game for a reason to use the OS.
Like I said, I have not tried Zorin (which like I also said, it's because it's arbitrary), but from the looks of the information provided by the official website, I don't really support the idea of a premium version, especially when most GNU/Linux OSs don't support a premium version. Call me a cheapskate, but if my opinion is what you want, then my opinion is what you'll get. I'm not telling you to not try it, I'm just telling you there many paths that you can enter and arrive at the same conclusion.
I really hope this helps, because I am eating as I am typing. 
Good luck.
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