OT-Kubuntu Linux on my Dell

Put Kubuntu Linux on my dell windows xp-what a difference, its like a new computer. I'm using it as a backup for thumb drive, word document, etc. I have tablets & cell phones, but only a laptop for word documents, thumbdrive-nice to have a backup, & only cost me $25. Sure beats spending hundreds for a new one. Computer is 11yrs old and its a miracle to see computer running so good.

I have Ubuntu on my Toshiba laptop and a dell desktop and a gateway desktop. Love it.

I'm still using XP . What is the learning curve on that . Is it an easy transition to linux , or is it like starting from scratch ?

Its really easy to use. It uses Mozilla for a browser. Its excepting change that might be hard. I dont use windows at all. No anti virus, and i do online banking.

I've got Ubuntu 14.04 on this computer and I've used Ubuntu since the 8-something version.
It will allow an antiquated Windows-based computer new life, and can be used for quite a few more years.
Plus....wait for it.....wait for it...IT'S FREE!

You will have to learn some new things. If the day comes that you have to get Windows 10 ,you will have to
learn many new things and new terms.
You can download Ubuntu live USB or DVD and try it out with out installing it. It will be much slower than if you installed it but you can have a look anyways. I think Mint has a classic shell that makes it look like windows but it is all different under the hood once you have to fix.
Good luck with XP!

Linux Mint has very little learning curve transitioning from XP. I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 on a 13 year old Dell desktop computer. I had tried Ubuntu early on, maybe version 7, on a win98 system P2/350 if I remember. Then when XP blew up on me on this Dell and they were talking dropping support I put 12.04 on it and have been happy ever since. I admit though, if you have a home server, remote printers or an otherwise complicated network, you will spend some time on the forums looking for help communicating with devices hooked to other machines. But, and this is the bottom line, once you get it working for you, it will be nearly bulletproof. I personally haven't had the update roulette you get with Windows where you get an update and something stops working. Or you upgrade to a new Windows version and suddenly find there are no drivers for your perfectly good older printer. Oh, and someone else mentioned, it's free unless you want to pay for support. Usually, for the home user there's no need as the forums for most Linux distros are pretty helpful people, kind of like here.

On a final note, I spend hours each month keeping my wife's win7 machine updated with all its programs. The Ubuntu machine is set to download and notify. It runs in the background and downloads whatever updates are available for ALL the programs on the machine, email, browers etc. All I have to do is tell it to install them. I may spend 10 minutes a month telling it to install updates.