Different Distributions

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Peter Goggin <petergoggin at bigpond.com> on Thu, 07 Aug
2014 10:32:41 +1000

> Mint and Zorro claim their distributions provide a desktop similar to XP 
> and I beleive Zorro comes with a Windows emulator to allow windows 
> programs to run.
> 
> Does any one have any experience with these distributions?

Not me!


> I have several laptops running Windows Xp and Window 7.  Upgrading to 
> the latest versions of Widows is too costly.  These laptops run various 
> applications , some of which (e.g.firefox, thunderbird, OpenOffice, 
> Libreoffice) run under Linux but a number of programs for genealogy, 
> video editing do not appear to have suitable Linux replacements.  A  
> linux distribution with built in Windows emulation may solve my 
> problems. I want a distribution which does not require me to use lots of 
> command line stuff, I am a bit too old for that.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated

I use Ubuntu and run Windows in VirtualBox for my genealogy programs.  Works
great.

-- 
Robert Blair