Which is not why you should refrains from using W/10 but instead do not use some its default programs when there are better alternative. For years I have used Thunderbird email client. For browsers Firefox ESR and Quantum portable, Waterfox Classic and Basilisk, etc. For pictures Xnview. For a Word pro Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Plus OpenShell, T-clock/ WinPatrol. etc/ Thanks be to God.
What if one never uses the mail client in the OS but has used Google Mail separately?
Probably a stupid question but thought I’d ask anyway.
I agree completely. My desktop still runs Windows 7 flawlessly. Windows 10 on my laptop works okay but it is over complicated to find out how to do certain things and, in my opinion, it is one big piece of spyware programming.
There are literally dozens of places where Microsoft noses around in your stuff by default and you have to figure out where they are and how to turn them off.
I use open Office, Corel Draw and irfanview, which is a great little piece of software for pictures. Even though I am I an accomplished user of coreldraw and photo paint I use irfanview view quite a bit. Even though it’s technically free I do donate because I think the author did a great job on it.
I’ve been using Thunderbird on all my machines from the early days. Because I have my own business website / domain my email addresses are on that. I only use my Gmail address for odds and ends and things that I sign up for.
“...Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice...”
Can any of them open Win-7 Office 2007 *.doc or *.docx files?
On my Linux Mint drive, I have configured Thunderbird to do the same thing. I don't use Thunderbird on the W10 drive because it updates constantly and (even I have the updates turned off) I don't trust it not to update. When it does, all of the add-ons I installed become useless and that's no good to me.
Long and short, if it wasn't for some the things I have to use W10 for, I would be a Linux user exclusively. Additionally, I am sooooo tempted to utilize a new email system if one can be found that won't put users thru the kind of crap as explained in this article.
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