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I have a pc that is still fairly powerful but with Windows XP (Pentium 4 3Ghz 4 Gb Ram).

It is used by someone who is not computer expert (I would say a really basic user) only for browsing and printing invoices.

The invoicing software is something that I developed like 10 years ago in Visual Basic, it is simple and functional and still running well.

This VB software is only the reason why I still keep XP in this computer, I would like to get rid of it and switch to Ubuntu latest release.

From what I have read here, the solutions are:

  • Use & configure Wine with a default printer.
  • Rewrite the software with Gambas.
  • Rewrite the VB software as a PHP/MySql web application and use Firefox or Chromium for printing to a default printer.

Now I never used Wine or Gambas, but I can easily creare the web application.

I am kind of afraid that with the first 2 solutions I will have to spend a lot of time in configuration, test and acquire knowledge that I don't have. Also I read about many people having troubles with printers in Wine and Gambas. And with the 3rd solution I am afraid that it will turn out to be not much professional/slow/problematic because it needs a working internet connection and everything will be online.

What do you think it will be the best approach?

Mario
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I don't know if you resolve this issue, a application web is the best solution, you don't need internet connection. You can develop a web application and put on the web server using LAMP or LEMP server of local way. Also, if you develop a application with Gambas you don't need Wine, this is need only if you try run de VB app in Linux.

Alejandro
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