You will not find much if any of a market for your old XP computer. My suggestion is to get everything off of it that you want to keep and then install Lubuntu 14.04 LTS. You will find that it is an excellent operating system for older computers and is very secure at that.
Ames, Iowa here. I fish 3 lakes within a few miles of my front door that are electric only. All county lakes here in Story County are electric only. I enjoy the peace and quiet and lack of large boats and jet skis buzzing my bow. My two man 14 ft. V bottom fully loaded with battery, motor...
You really should try Ubuntu. The learning curve has all but disappeared. My wife does not have a techy bone in her body and after a two minute overview was reading her Yahoo email and surfing the web with Ubuntu. She really could care less that Windows no longer resides in this house.
We use Ubuntu 11.1 on our laptop here at home. My wife is NOT tech oriented so it makes a great system for us. She likes not having to worry about clicking on an evil link and causing her email to send out spam to others. She did when we were using Windows. She was totally red-faced when she...
Am I the only person here that bought a PC and then immediately installed Ubuntu as my operating system? To me it is the best of both worlds. I enjoy the price of a PC and the simplicity and security of a Mac.