Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014) (linux.com)

YOLOTD?

(2014)

Recent related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465 "I installed a KDE Plasma theme that makes it look like Windows XP"

"By Carla Schroder - April 8, 2014".

I am all for replacing MS products with Linux, but the article is old. We are not in a time travel capsule; at the least not most of us. I would more expect current topics to match, e. g. replacing Win11 with Linux.

Also, I found WinXP actually better than Win7, Win10, Win11. At the least simpler to use.

>Immune to Windows malware, and you don’t need anti-malware software

Ah yes! The old "Linux doesn't get viruses" argument. Thanks for sharing this bit of history with the class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware#Threats

More current discussion:

I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574707

One of these years is going to be the year of the Linux desktop!

Hmm: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Linux+desktop&...

Loving the "ubuntu unleashed" recommendation at the end

Please edit the title and add (2014), it's quite confusing to find over 10 year old articles in the Hacker News frontpage.