windows causes heart failure

[Amiduffer]

All joking aside, it is annoying the hell out of me.

I'm trying to install WinXP Pro, and right from the start, the internet won't work and there's no audio! And this is from the same PC that I had installed Linux on which worked pretty much flawlessly right from the get go.

Shame Linux doesn't have a decent Pinnacle Studio equivalent.

[Amiduffer]

Well, its only 10+ years old, so...

Why would you move to XP which is at end of life from linux?

Mostly economics. I'm broke as a joke.

For the purposes of having a working archiving system for these old VHS tapes, I bought Pinnacle Studio a couple of years ago which only works on Windows. At minimum, it'll work with WinXP, and luckily there was a loose original copy here in the office. After much agrivation, I got it to work, and now I have sound after downloading the drivers from Realtek and the wireless works. If not for that reason alone, I wouldn't touch the damn thing with a 100 foot pole.

I did enjoy having WinUAE.