Hello all, There are quite a lot of Linux forums out there. I haven't thought about it before but I've never really liked Windows and my wife is throwing devices away like crazy lately and I have a number of what she calls obsolete laptops and now a tablet. There are so many different Linux offerings I really don't know where to start. I looked around here but I don't see any discussions about choosing one. People seem to say that you can keep old machines running using Linux. Is this true? What if I have old software that supports a musical device and it was written for XP? As it stands I have two HP laptops that I can experiment with. Both came with 10 or 11. Can someone point me in the right direction starting from scratch? Thank you