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Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on

Mark writes, "When Microsoft announced the end of support for Windows 98 and Millennium Edition on June 30th, there was a lot of talk of these users migrating over to Linux desktops. In the weeks since this announcement, there is a very noticeable increase of activity on community boards and blogs from newbies asking questions about switching over to Linux, and how would they support their new systems." According to OneStat.com, Windows 98 and Windows ME account for about 4% of the total PCs in the world.

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  1. I take it you have found a version of TURBO TAX by baomike · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    for Linux.
    I am certainly not going to buy a new MS OS just to run TT.

  2. Re:Upgrading boxes by pe1chl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can't realistically run Linux on a Windows-98-spec PC.
    It was possible in the days that those systems were current (8 years ago), but nowadays Linux distributions require XP/Vista-class machines.

    The "you can run Linux on anything" myth is just that: a myth.
    Sure you can run a router/firewall on it, or you could use it as the processor of a large storage box for multimedia files (with some new diskdrives), but that is not what the average user wants to do.
    They want that graphical desktop with internet browser, office application, etc. Their PC will perform that function much better under Windows 98 than under Linux!