[Paladin2]

I just put an SSD in a 6 yr old desktop (that had recently received a new power supply), loaded 64 bit Ubuntu, Oracle Virtual Box, & Win XPP. The sucker is now PDQ and handles older Windows 32/16 bit s/w.

It's impressive how far Linux has come.

The machine had Vista "Ultimate" and was getting bogged down with who knows what exactly and there was no way I was going to Win10. I'm impressed with the machine's new function.

[Steely Tom]

I too have used Linux a good deal, and I like it.

Unfortunately, I’m a software developer and have about twenty years experience using MS Visual Studio. The developer tools for Linux (mainly Eclipse and Net Beans) is just a little too painful - in terms of learning curve - as long as no one is forcing me to use it. We have a lot of legacy code written over the last twelve years or so.

But I’ll tell you, the hassles of staying with Windows are have me right at the threshold of saying “enough already” and switching to Linux.