Installing Linux Mint on an XP PC is something any Windows power user can do.

Someone gave Shilissa Stimpson an old Windows XP PC. She asked what she can do with it. Windows XP is a dead operating system. Microsoft no longer supports it, which means that it’s no longer safe to ...

For those times when you absolutely must still run Windows XP, one safer way of doing it is to run XP in a virtual machine using the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor on Linux Mint.