Am I wrong? Did you say VISTA? (Sneakers)
In Linux, Mint is my favorite. Ubuntu seem s to be ugly, though Mint is fresh as its name.
Good! Many people surf the net with the same PC they try to keep important data... It´s predictable the end result: I don´t give gold those pigs who steal...
I have heard in Aussie OLD PCs are placed in front of houses, so any man like me can get an old IDE HDD to "restore" his old PC. Here, because of the gov, it´s hard to get eide HDDs and, thanks GOD, I gave my old PCs, so now I´m using SATA HDD ( it took me $everal year$ ).
yes vista is the only o.s. I still use from Microsoft not because it is my favorite but because it's one that went with one of my computers. I was faced with changing every few years as they stopped sending updates or switch over to Linux because it was free. I've never had a machine that used win.7,8,ect. the first time I tried Linux was the freespire 1.0 (outdated now), but the newer distros seem to work well out of box. The freespire was pretty much hands on as to trying to get it online my wife wrestled with it and got it,but not me.
Where I live it is so far away from any hot spots we have to get pay per gig(no hot spots available) so how fast they are verses how fast I want to top up is the issue. What we have do is drive into town(30 mile round trip) and get downloads and jump them back and forth so the o.s.'s Ive tried were burned to c.d. after we brought them home on one device or another or ones we just bought online and had sent to us snail mail.
I went for the least complicated ones (to bridge the learning process) from Microsoft to linux but I have read some about puppy and other distros(they all seem out of my abilities for now) so Ive only gotten comfortable with Ubuntu,mint and Linux lite. The main reason is as a beginner they were something we could (out of the box) get to connect to wifi. The issue I have is most all of my computers(collected from garage sales ect.) are all either too old or not new enough(newest is 2008 and sata hdd),,the others all still had land line modems but a few of them supported wifi via usb port(all the others wont) so all of those I can still run distros on or obsolete systems(i.e. xp,m.e,98se,ect.,,,(i just don't put them online)
Now across the next few years I think I could master all the basics to linux(cant be no more difficult than getting used to one of the m.s. systems and then them changing). I read once that almost all of the third world nations where donations are sent end up getting used towers so most of them are set up with Linux (because their faced with hand me downs). Some would laugh at me that I have never played any of the games on the computer or games like atari xbox stuff(my age being the factor they are well after my time,lol),that said though so I only use the one online to come here surf the web,read research ect.
I once let the cat out of the bag that I could start with a bare bone case and build a computer( really just swapping hardware ect.) to keep my own equipment running to avoid taking it to a shop($) and so then everyone I knew began to show up with theirs for me to fix. Well as the the newer ones came out i got less and less efficient at this and again now only work on my own,lol. My wife on the other hand mostly worked out the problems with issues of virus,worms,ect. getting connected ect. So I would get one running and install a system she experimented with the million things you can download,so she got better at the programing issues than me.
I really just wanted a system,any system that I could install and run until there was an issue and then instead of trying to solve the issue just go to bios boot from cd and reformat(just seems to be the simplest path at times) than trying to figure out what happened or if it was hacked. Now other than that I have a roomba irobot, seems to run r.o.s. or some form of l.i.s.p. linux based o.s. and so i find myself now beginning to tinker with that and would really like to get better with a very small o.s. like that because of the drones ect. running simular o.s.
Amazon.com: Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 Elite Edition Quadricopter - Wifi - Free App iOS & Android - Record HD 720p movies - Jungle: MP3 Players & Accessories these all run some type of o.s. of the same nature as linux,android ect.