Old Machines and XP for Linux(not really a D topic)

[Steve Teale]

On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 12:20:14 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
wrote:

> If you're talking Linux, why not just use Linux?

To people who can just about manage to use outdated software on 
XP, it's probably a big deal to switch to Linux. And is that 
outdated version of Quickbooks available to run under Linux?

You are living in a different world, so don't just assume that 
the knowledge and availability of equipment that you are 
accustomed to exists elsewhere.

I was being semi-sarcastic, since as far as I'm concerned, 
Windows could die tomorrow. What I said was that Microsoft might 
be doing themselves a favour in the long term if ...

Steve