Comment 264 for bug 930447

I am not a dev, not a skilled programmer, but only a loyal and satisfied ubuntu user since I switched from Suse to Dapper Drake 6.06 on my deprecated Pentium M.
This old and poor notebook have seen also Windows XP, Windows Vista and now it can also run Windows 7 with not much pretends. I decided to give him new life upgrading from 11.10 and make Xubuntu 13.10 the only OS installed in my notebook and guess what?? I cannot install it. Why?? PAE Kernel!! I had to install 12.04, install fake-pae and the make 3 (THREE) dist upgrades! (after days of research)
The system goes smooth and fast as it has never been, so what's the problem of adding those few lines of code in linux kernel?
Why force users that have a PAE capable cpu (unlikely not advertised) to make tricks and 3-4-5 etc distribution upgrades just to be able to install the latest distribution that could also run with no problems at all?
I understand that old hardware cannot been supported forever...but this is not the case for Pentium M.
Should I have stayed with Windows 7 or even XP? This will be the scenario the first time I will be in need of formatting my notebook (don't have the will/the time to make 4-5-... dist upgrade from 12.04 everytime).
I really thanks all the devs, but the decision to drop off pae without thinking about consequencies, is a little bit stupid.
I decided to write this comment just to point out that LIKE ME, there are thousands (not hundreds) of desktop users like me that decided to return to run Windows on their systems after that decision and they didn't come to launchpad to make you know.
Just search "Ubuntu non PAE" on google...

@Roland
Thanks for your efforts!