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I have converted only a few for friends, usually older laptops which I put lubuntu on, except for one with enough power to run Ubuntu.

Instead of convert as many as possible that come my way I...

Hi amjjawad, I am planning to put lubuntu on someone's old xp machine, but I am alerted to a bug in lubuntu where the updater never notifies users for update. This bug has been around since 12.04....

But it doesn't help to wean them off MS, actually exactly the opposite. KSO supports only MS formats and apparently does it uncannily well based on fans' testimonies(does it steal codes from MS, is...

I question the wisdom of trapping people in MicroSoft formats. Many people (especially home users) don't have to use these but KSO doesn't even support open formats, it just encourages the addiction...

So you made the flyer yourself? Since it is for your business you have a choice for its format and the tool you create it with. Why did you make in MSO? Also I suppose a flyer should not change so...

Well most people wouldn't need to read highlty formatted word documents. That is even for people who use Word a lot for publishing in academic journals, I know that because I work with such people....

Well not all old machines are the same, some were top of the line in their days and some were crappy even when they came out. And it also depends on definition. For gamers with money to burn a 3...

Or not use MS Office formats. There is no way to be 100% compatible with MSO formats because they are designed to be incompatible with everything else, even older versions of MSO in order to...

Actually quite the opposite. The completely clueless users wouldn't be able to tell the difference if you set it up for them. :)

I don't know how clueless your pap is or whether that was implied...

You must have extraordinary bad luck or it may be your shopping habits.. I have used a few usb wifi cards in the past on different machines and except for one all worked out of the box. the one...

I can't bear to see that there are still people coming to this forum asking for advice to set up dual boot with XP, maybe you can perform your art of persuasion here when you are not too busy setting...

At where I worked the (hp) laser printer had xp driver but not Win7 (it worked out of the box with Ubuntu though). Their solution was to keep one old machine on XP just to use the printer. It wasn't...

It is 10% now, more than those who would move to Windows8 (9%)

Actually graphic tends to work better with newer machines because of better drivers (except the most bleeding edge releases) Nvidia's Linux support is on par with Windows'--unless you get optimus but...

Actually most computer users don't play games. Gamers are a small but vocal minority of computer users. On the other hand most laptops from the last 3 years would come with at least 4 G of ram and it...

My brother is one of those people who will stick to xp regardless. He has a brand new, super powerful desktop running XP(yeah one of the few people I know who still own desktops) He makes the machine...

People hate changes. :) Even on these forums there were folks showing up not long ago wondering why their lucid or Karmic (Karmic???!!!) machines weren't working and would rather resorting to some...

I think you can compare the sources.list of lxle and lubuntu 12.04 and check what provides the long term support. I am not sure but I think the lxle ppa is the only important difference.

lubuntu shares almost all of Ubuntu's repositories except for a few things. I think if you have lubuntu 12.04 and add this ppa it would become a LTS https://launchpad.net/~lxle/+archive/updates ...

I suspect there are die hard XP fans who just wouldn't switch or update and they don't care if MS stops supporting it. Just look at some people on this forum ( almost Feb 2014) with questions about...

Look, I never, ever understand the point of the "trash can". If I delete something I want it gone, not being saved in the trash can and taking up space. I have seen Windows people literally running...

Well this is a main point. Windows (and Mac) users by and large do expect to be spoon fed,--or better you chew and eat for them,--they don't want to have to do things themselves by reading Howtos...

That goes without saying. But many people are on Windows not necessary because they *want* to stay with Windows, just because it comes with their computers. I think those are the people the campaign...

You don't need to actually do a survey to take a stab at estimating the percentage. After all science makes predictions before you confirm (or refute) them with data. :)

How do people acquire...

Good initiative, though I don't think it should be targeting just xp users, like others say many XP machines are old and in need of upgrading anyway and true that there are people with newer hardware...