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To: Darksheare; ArGee; TheOldLady
After my first look at Windows 8, I'm thinking my next computer will be a convertible tablet with an Android OS.

Win8 may have some good stuff but why on earth (or above the earth - maybe under the earth though) would I want something that belongs on a touch screen device installed on my desktop? Just my thoughts.. I'm grabbing a couple of OEM's of Win7 before they disappear.

Oh, and I have a box running a Linux distro (Mint13) right now - figure I'll try out a bunch of the distros to see what's up with the Penguin..

I’d upgrade the system back to a real PC user OS like Windows Se7en.

You don't have to get that drastic. I have a couple of OEM's of WinXP you can have cheap. If you want to upgrade to a real user OS, I still have a copy of MS-DOS 6, but you'll need a floppy to install it... ;-)

Also have the bigthickbook that goes with it...

1,915 posted on 01/30/2013 10:32:01 AM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Darksheare; ArGee

Mine doesn’t have a touch screen.

It has a Win7 skin, but I wanted to try the 8 and shut it off. I’m not going back.


1,917 posted on 01/30/2013 10:53:15 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: NoCmpromiz; ArGee; TheOldLady

“I have a box running a Linux distro (Mint13) right now “

rm*, it’s a cussword!
A dread invokation of cyclopean horror, invoking a nebula of pain!
Especially if some clown types it in from root.

Dos 6, gack.
Yes, I do recall seeing that laying around somewhere.
Also the whisperings and dark malignance that seems to writhe from it.


1,924 posted on 01/30/2013 11:05:35 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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