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Thank you all. Very useful info. I too have dabbled with Linux and know what you mean Bigbeard even though I too have used computers for decades (since the Apple II days!). Still have several flavors of Linux on my current laptop installed under Oracle Virtual Box. But rarely go there.....

Which 32bit version of Mint do you recommend for the computer newbie I am preparing the laptop for: KDE, xfce, MATE, Cinnamon? Or is Ubuntu better for such a newbie?

Thanks Neem. I myself am on Windows 10. I'll see if this person can use Linux.She not computer literate and might not know the difference.

Thank you BIGBEARJEDI. I am not trying to use Windows 10 on this old laptop. It has Windows XP on it and that is fine with the person I am donating it to. So I just want to get it to access the web for this person. Does Windows XP need SSE2 support to connect to the internet? I assume that is in...

Sorry to jump in, but I am having the identical problem. I am rehabilitating a 10 year old Dell Inspiron laptop running Windows XP for a friend. 1. If I connect it via cable to my FIOS cable modem, Bing searches do work, but all links refuse to work with the error message about "going to a...