Originally Posted by
Groundgripper
My wife has an ASUS Eee(e?) notebook, about 4 years old, also on XP so I assume that that needs a different version of W8.
Linux works perfectly on my XP-era EeePC. Certainly much better than Window 8 is likely to.
Originally Posted by
mixture
Seriously. Just think about all the great developments in hardware and software over the last 20 years.
Almost all of which happened before XP went mainstream. About the only major change since then has been the rise of multi-core CPUs, and even that wasn't such a big deal since my first XP machine was running on a hyperthreading CPU that faked two cores.
A major new OS every couple of years made sense in the 80s and 90s, when technology was changing so fast. It makes no sense today, other than to force users to pay to 'upgrade' when they don't want to.