Really now? Well let me tell you, I am on some limited drivers on my laptop for the graphics card meaning anything more complicated asked of it is handled by the CPU instead. Of course, anything is better than staying with Windows XP if I want to use it online.

My first hands on experience with Linux was having to "roll my own" (make it work on a newer OS than it was ever made for) driver for a printer, I failed. Of course, on Windows I would never even attempt to do that.

The OP could by all means try a live dvd/usb-stick of some suitable Linux distro to see how it works.

YMMV I guess, but I've over the years (I've been Windows-free for more than a decade) installed numerous distributions of Linux on countless machines, mine, of friends, at work etc. and I've had to deal with a driver problem maybe twice (both network related). As for graphics cards, especially on AMD, the drivers suck sometimes it's true. I'm using AMD on Linux and the support is pretty bad, but AMD has been promising for years and years and years to work on the open drivers and it appears they're finally about to do it, so here's to hoping. I hear there are some problems with Intel drivers too (is NVIDIA the only one that cares?) but I haven't used Intel graphics for quite a while so I don't know first-hand.

Alas! AMD card...

I'm going to use this post as a bit of a display shelf to get rid of a question:

For those wondering how/where to get Linux on a USB stick, here is one of the better Windows utilities.

Allegedly, they have the better closed-source drivers compared to AMD (I wouldn't know, the last Nvidia card I had was a GeForce 2 which replaced my Voodoo 3), but at the same time: of the three big GPU manufacturers, Nvidia are the ones who care least about open-source. Intel doesn't have closed drivers at all on Linux, AMD have been supporting the open-source developers for years, not to mention recently releasing official open drivers... and then there's Nvidia who only very recently figured out that "maybe we should go talk to the guys building open drivers for our hardware, and perhaps tone the down the whole 'screaming profanities at them' thing, so that we don't come off as complete assholes?".

Sure, all of that holds true, but NVIDIA does have the better driver on Linux by far. I'd say billions of light years away from AMD.

Your answer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

Also attachment related. Read wat is underlined, eg older than 7 and no support for you, when trying to run it

Fuck XP and it's shitty outdated libraries and API-s

I don't doubt you, but my R9 270X runs perfectly fine with radeonsi, and I'm sure it'll get even better when amdgpu gets support for it. I mean I may have low standards (perhaps being coloured from World of Warcraft dipping to 4-5 FPS every once in a while, and that was on Windows and a Radeon 5750), but the eON-wrapped Saints Row: Gat out of Hell runs well enough for me, and that's almost universally bashed as a shitty port. I see little reason to switch.

Hi, Do they ship worldwide? all at a flat rate of 10$ per item?
I would check myself but they require creating an account for orders.

Protip: You missed the "checkout as guest" radio button. And they've got a country selector, so I don't see why not. As for the flat shipping...that's probably complicated.

I suggest further research on the site. But I will add this place is fully legit, and not only have I purchased from here, but so has my dad.

64-bit XP was almost like a public beta. Support for it has always been notoriously poor. 32-bit XP on the other hand was great for a while. Finding drivers at this point could be problematic and a lot more needs to be done to make it safe online, making it more than most people are willing to deal with.

Though, game compatibility is probably the best of any Windows of recent memory. Unless that's an absolute concern, 7 is your next best bet (Just be careful with all the updates that want to infuse the Win10 spyware onto your machine).

Do you need xp for anything in particular? Pretty sure you could install Xubuntu on your machine and have more compatibility with games/software.

But I'm pretty sure the GOG team isn't focused on making things compatible with an obsolete operating system so if it doesn't work then just stick to the https://www.gog.com/downloader which should still work fine. I'm surprised no one else brought it up. You can consider Galaxy to be a "modern bells and whistles" thing that's too high requirement for your computer. :P

Proud owner of HD5850, HD4650 mobile - no issues, open driver runs all games and does multihead since mid 2014.

I still have a xp 64 pro installed on my home server in its own little sandbox... have not needed it since Kights old republic came to gog but I keep it just for old time sake.

Letting XP onto a multi-play server would be irresponsible and I can't see gog opening that can of worms any time soon.