Installing Linux Mint on a Windows 8.x PC with Secure Boot on can be a pain, but on an XP system it's easy. So, if you're considering switching out XP for Linux Mint, here's how you'd go about it.

On April 8, 2014, Windows XP's come to the end of its support life-cycle. After that, it appears 37 percent of you are planning on continuing with XP without support. That's foolhardy. I get it though ...

Microsoft will soon end official support for Windows XP, and OMG! Ubuntu! thinks that Lubuntu could be the perfect replacement. Lubuntu is a lightweight spin of Ubuntu that provides a more traditional ...

Here is what I have:<P>two HD one is 6 gigs 5200 rpm the other 30 gig 7400 rpm<BR>Getting ready to back-up and format both.<P>Should I format them both under fat and how many partitions should I make?

Linux, once viewed as an operating system only computer geeks could appreciate, is today much more user-friendly software that companies, public administrations and consumers can master almost as ...

Someone gave Shilissa Stimpson an old Windows XP PC. She asked what she can do with it. Windows XP is a dead operating system. Microsoft no longer supports it, which means that it’s no longer safe to ...

Everybody has a version of Windows that’s their favorite. What version it is depends a lot on your age. Some of my older colleagues swore blind that Windows 95 was the pinnacle of computer science, at ...

When Microsoft finally announced that official support for Windows XP was coming to an end, China wasn't happy. At the time, Windows accounted for 91 percent market share on the desktop, compared to ...