Re: Thinking about moving to Linux permanently, should I keep my

From	Jack Strangio <jackstrangio@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Thinking about moving to Linux permanently, should I keep my
Date	2026-05-18 05:34 +0000
Organization	North Star Horizon Builders Club
Message-ID	<tF7wq6.6tCt@yahoo.com> (permalink)
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
> On 14/05/2026 05:20, Jack Strangio wrote:
> > As long as*ONE*  of your
> > machines can run actual Windows you're good
> 
> None of my machines have run windows natively for nearly 15 years,
> Why would I need to? To play Doom or something?

I find that Apple shit has Windows drivers available, but often won't have
drivers available for Linux.

Specifically, I have an iPod Nano and I have an IPhone SE. I can't put music
on the iPod - so don't use that any more. But I need to get my photos off
the iPhone still, and that I might do every 3 months or so.

Yes, I know.  DON'T BUY APPLE SHIT!  And nowadays I refuse to.  My most
recent phone purchase was when I bought a Huawei phone in France a couple of
years back.  I plan to migrate to that exclusevely when I get a spare month
or two.

My only other use for Windows is my HP MFP which has Windows-only scanning
software for the automatic multi-page feeder doing both sides of the pages.

I keep a Windows 7 guest on Virtualbox solely for doing that one.

Regards,

Jack
-- 
Voting is the adult version of writing a letter to Santa Claus.

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