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On 10/15/2016 1:21 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
>> I'm tempted to make that PC a Linux machine
>
> What are you waiting for?
>
It will take a little bit of time to test all my software and make sure 
they run correctly. I've accumulated a lot of paid software over the 
years and it's all Windows software.

I came close to flipping away from Windows a couple of years back and I 
tested about 70% of my software and they seemed to work fine under Wine, 
specially the older software. My main concern is Photoshop, Adobe 
LightRoom, and Adobe Elements, I use those quite a bit. I'm  also 
concerned abut my FPGA software, I've read that it's a bear to install 
the Linux version of Lattice Diamond, and Vivado and get it to work.

I could keep a PC or two still running Windows, I bought while on sale 4 
120GB SSD drives that I could use to install Mint Linux and still keep 
Windows in a multi-boot environment.

But yes I will install Windows on that PC that crashed and burned with 
the Windows 10 upgrade this evening, it's one of those tiny HP PCs so 
8GB RAM is all it can take, and it only has one HD, before I added an 
external USB 1GB external drive for bulk storage.

I hesitate to convert the whole lot,only because I paid a lot of money 
for Windows, I have 4 laptops and 13 desktops, I was in the PC business 
and I accumulated a lot of gear over the years, all my desktops have 
Quad Core CPUs as a minimum, 7 of them are I7 CPUs so that is quite an 
investment in Software. I saved some money by buying used HP hardware, I 
went on eBay and bought the DVDs from HP to install Windows 7 for free, 
then upgraded to Windows 10, still I ended buying quite a few copies of 
Windows 7 and Windows 8 for the other CPUs, all were upgraded to Windows 10.

-- 
Cecil - k5nwa

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