Something that is relatively easy to monkey with.
I'm with you! 
Posted on 05/19/2024 11:57:09 AM PDT by fireman15
I still having a running, live
box on Win98
And while I’ve worked in IT for over 40 years—lots of changes!—what you are discussing is relevant to about 1% of the population. Myself, even if I wanted to, I wouldn’t use Linux for work, not worth the compatibility issues. Just like my truck, I just want it to work without getting my hands dirty. That said, I still build my computers from parts.
I just recently acquired another machine set up for 10. I gave up the old one, which was still doing what I needed with 7, but no support of course. Wonder if I’ll be able to hang on to this one awhile? I have no desire for Windows 11 & I am getting old probably faster than what Microsoft is doing with their “versions”.
Thanks but I am too old to switch to Linux.
It all depends on how tethered you want your life to be to companies that don’t give a rip other than making you a slave to their latest “apps” that sell your info to the highest bidder. There is a third option....Dump them all. I think with the exposure many of these companies are garnering for themselves that another option will emerge and eventually phase each of them out, starting with Bill Gates. In fact, kind of shocked that it already hasn’t taken place by now.
https://www.techradar.com/news/best-alternative-operating-systems
Linux! Lenox I think is a vacuum clear!
Sounds like a good set up.
Most of the day I’m out and about, so need a more mobile setup.
We do have a plethora in Amazon bot spying Dots around the house and detached garage [and even in one vehicle [~20 yr old] with a dedicated hot spot] so get low quality audio from those.
Thanks for your system description. There’s plenty of possible configurations these dayz.
Gates wired his house for ethernet. Then wifi came along. Tch... tch...
Are you >75?
Actually, that is an oversimplification. I have been using various versions of Linux since the 1990s. The problem is that I was an early adopter of Photoshop. I have all sorts of software that will not run on Linux.
I have Ubuntu Studio dual booting on three machines, and it is pretty amazing, but it is still not a substitute for Windows for me. The parties that need to be convinced to switch to Linux are the companies that develop software like Adobe, Black Magic Design, and Autodesk. They dip their toes in it once and a while but it never seems to take
Linux can do a lot especially when it comes to browsing, word processing, and even many creative endeavors but it is typically like you are stepping back ten or more years.
But my Windows 98 laptop died over 20 years ago. I foolishly didn't use an anti-virus or perhaps even a firewall. For whatever reason, it kept crashing, bringing up the Blue Screen of Death.
My 95 and XL have stood up remarkably well.
The issue is that it’s got an AMD A-4 dual core processor; the computer is worth every bit of the $200 I paid for it new off the shelf. It will run pretty much any single process but trying to run two things at once is problematical, and it’s very slow to boot up or load programs. And updates are a nightmare. I did try Puppy on it, but even that was frustrating. I’d rather try to upgrade the 15 or so year old machine than this one, but I have some old programs on it that I don’t know if they would run under Win11, so I’ll leave that one on 10 as well.
Frankly, if MS let me downgrade to XP on the two machines, I’d be willing to give that a try.
Win11 is just an effort to force new hardware on everyone; I expect anyone that can explain what’s in the new hardware that the government wants is under an NDA, so there is that.
So far, I have found the Linux equivalents to Adobe Acrobat severely lacking.
I have a 13GB outlook.pst file. I use those old emails frequently. I have not yet been successful in migrating those files to Thunderbird.
The Linux Photoshop equivalents I have used so far are quite capable but much more troublesome to perform routine work, particularly on camera RAW files, for which most of that software have no equivalents, even for Nikon NRW files.
Finally, I formatted a 4TB hard drive on Linux that doesn't show up on Win10, even though I already had another NTFS drive that did. Don't know why, but it's a PITA.
I spent a fair bit upgrading my motherboard to a dual boot setup, but so far it's been nothing but pain.
I understand that the tax software I use is going to force Win11 next year.
I didn't say that MicroSlop was doing this as a marketing thing.
I have less PCs to work on these days because no ordinary consumer wants to deal with MicroSlop bollixing up their PC.
So, they just leave the personal computer for a more friendly interface, and it doesn't matter which.
Just as long as MicroSlop and its garbage bossy computer products [This PC - not the former My PC] are out of their hair.
Something that is relatively easy to monkey with.
I'm with you!
Tired of having to search around for buttons that worked fine on old versions but are now buried in a miasma of “re-imaginings”.
I only use ethernet in every room, it seems preferable if available.
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