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[–] TerraKell 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

I have been a Linux user for over 10 years, starting with OpenSuse 9. I purchased a HP notebook with XP Home and Best Buys, et al, left the firewall turned off. I set it up as dual-boot so that I could research how to fix the XP virus issues. The virus find4you was a challenge to find and fix.

I have had Reiser file system corruptions, hardware issues like modem drivers, Firefox causing whole system to freeze, poor printer drivers that will work in one distro but not in another, scanners that will not work in Linux, along with a few other problems. So I use VirtualBox and a licensed copy of XP Pro for the software that Linux does not have or do well; I get a copy of XP Pro the way I like it and then clone it so that I am using the clone and do not care if that becomes corrupted as I can make a new clone and use that one. File transfer is easy between VirtualBox and Linux and the VirtualBox even handles USB drives.

Then there is the issue of end of service life and the new version of OpenSuse that will not run the same programs that the EOS version did well; the upgrade did not work. That said, I am now using MXLinux and the VirtualBox file container easily copied from the old system to the new one with minimal problems. It is amazing how fast and stable it is with a 10-year-old motherboard, 4-core AMD processor, 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD. I found that 10 GB is about right for the XP container.

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[–] generate ago 

hm, VS 2019 won't run on XP I guess?