When Windows 10 support runs out, you have 5 options but only 2 are worth considering

I should have clarified that although your “hatred” of Microsoft sounds silly, many others feel the same way.

People who hate Microsoft fall into many categories. The most common are people who don’t know much about computers and have difficulties because even though they use them for simple tasks such as email, web browsing, and word processing they never bother to spend even a little time learning the basics.

Then you have people who are not really very computer savvy but somehow managed to get one of the flavors of Linux working on one or more of their computers. They often like to brag about how they hate Microsoft and use Linux instead. They feel that this makes them seem smarter and more sophisticated than the average computer user who makes do with the operating system that the manufacturer was given for free by Microsoft in exchange for installing a bunch of maddening bloatware.

Of course, we should never forget Apple users who in an effort to avoid frustration were willing to pay twice as much for a pretty little device with half the memory and processing power. And because their hardware and software choices are very limited, they usually have less trouble.

Then we get to people like you who know computers and know when the computer should be able to do something but cannot because of poor software design, etc... You have perfectly valid reasons for despising Microsoft who has inexplicably not fixed their products but managed to drive companies with better products out of business or bought them out and discontinued the superior product. I can think of dozens of examples. I don’t blame you a bit.

I can’t tell you how many boxes of software that I have saved with titles that no longer work on the latest 64bit versions of Windows. (I already mentioned in this thread that I was a computer software and hardware hoarder.) Fortunately, sometimes the superior products are still available through various legitimate channels.

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