Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Hughes Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Win 10 - one more year Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:15:24 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: <13543f6f5c.chris@mytardis> References: <5c6dc0e57enewsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> <14c6e76d5c.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM> <5c6e434c8cbob@sick-of-spam.invalid> Injection-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:21:05 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a8dfee034df9c3e5544d53dbe66f8870"; logging-data="4070771"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wMtFZ0v91P6KUWDMZMjAv7vKFo442yTI=" User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/9.03 (MsgServe/9.03S) (RISC-OS/5.31) NewsHound/v1.54 Cancel-Lock: sha1:48nMpqW2S9/FhUGQ+ekjPmqwtaQ= X-Editor: EmailEdit 2.04 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:21743 In message <5c6e434c8cbob@sick-of-spam.invalid> Bob Latham wrote: > In article <14c6e76d5c.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>, > David Higton wrote: >> In message <5c6dc0e57enewsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> >> John 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