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Re: Win 10 - one more year

From Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject Re: Win 10 - one more year
Date 2025-10-21 12:15 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <13543f6f5c.chris@mytardis> (permalink)
References <5c6dc0e57enewsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> <14c6e76d5c.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM> <5c6e434c8cbob@sick-of-spam.invalid>

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In message <5c6e434c8cbob@sick-of-spam.invalid>
          Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <14c6e76d5c.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>,
>    David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> In message <5c6dc0e57enewsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk>
>>           John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>>> I've been thinking about what to do about my Win 10 machines -
>>> one laptop and one tower unit.

>> Is there any reason why you can't upgrade to Linux?

> The primary problem for me (but there are others) is that as far as I
> know, UniLaunch cannot launch websites on a Linux browser.

> Now if UniLaunch got that ability.....

Well there is RISC OS on Linux on Pi5 available via a friend supplier with 
certain new machines, so both on the same deveice.

> I've not engaged well with RiscOS browsers over the years, I found
> they either fall very short on what websites they can render or are
> painfully slow to start up and open up sites.

The current version of Iris, which will be available via Packman as a 
packaged download is basically now free and pretty good at many sites, it 
even has a built in PDF reader which miles better then !PDF, or !PDFTest.

It can't do YouTube of course!


-- 
Chris Hughes

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Win 10 - one more year John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-10-18 14:38 +0100
  Re: Win 10 - one more year "Richard Darby (news)" <news@rjdarby.co.uk> - 2025-10-18 20:52 +0100
    Re: Win 10 - one more year John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-10-19 11:56 +0100
    Re: Win 10 - one more year Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-10-19 22:15 +0100
  Re: Win 10 - one more year David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2025-10-18 21:42 +0100
    Re: Win 10 - one more year Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> - 2025-10-18 22:19 +0100
      Re: Win 10 - one more year Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-10-19 09:16 +0100
      Re: Win 10 - one more year John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-10-19 11:58 +0100
    Re: Win 10 - one more year Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-10-19 09:23 +0100
      Re: Win 10 - one more year Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-10-19 10:09 +0100
    Re: Win 10 - one more year John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-10-19 11:57 +0100
    Re: Win 10 - one more year Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-10-19 14:22 +0100
      Re: Win 10 - one more year Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-10-21 12:15 +0100
      Re: Win 10 - one more year J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-10-21 16:15 +0000
        Re: Win 10 - one more year Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-10-21 19:39 +0100
          Re: Win 10 - one more year J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-10-22 11:15 +0000
        Re: Win 10 - one more year Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-10-21 21:12 +0100
          Re: Win 10 - one more year Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-10-22 11:37 +0100
          Re: Win 10 - one more year J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-10-22 11:15 +0000
            Re: Win 10 - one more year John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-10-22 16:53 +0100
              Re: Win 10 - one more year J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-10-22 16:30 +0000
                Re: Win 10 - one more year John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-10-22 19:51 +0100
        Re: Win 10 - one more year Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-10-23 11:59 +0100
          Re: Win 10 - one more year J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-10-24 16:45 +0000
        Re: Win 10 - one more year Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-13 09:12 +0100
          Re: Win 10 - one more year J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2026-04-13 22:15 +0000
  Re: Win 10 - one more year John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-11-06 10:32 +0000
    Re: Win 10 - one more year Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-11-06 11:53 +0000
      Re: Win 10 - one more year Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2025-11-06 14:23 +0000
        Re: Win 10 - one more year Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-11-06 14:57 +0000

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