Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan Purgert Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Life after Windows 7 Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 10:47:54 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 10:47:54 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3bb8e32aa58da79d17b4f6ced3c7bed1"; logging-data="12045"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19+q/uJjHLYcI2cnL0gqQLcR+0GQrayrgI=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tj+wrDNudhoByGqHQ8iL83w6N0k= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:18030 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Sylvia Else wrote: > I knew the day was coming, and it seems there's now only eight months > left before Windows 7 support ceases. > > I could probably switch to Linux, and run Windows 7 stuff in a VM for > any programs that aren't supported under Linux. I already have several > systems running Linux anyway (Fedora, for historical reasons). > > Alas, I don't think that's an option for my family members [...] Depends on what they do. The ones who just need their facebook / youtube / etc. have taken to Linux quite readily. "Yes, $family, this looks a little different. But so does W8/10 -- here, take a look at my work laptop..." [fam: Ohh, yeah, I think I like the looks of this one better...] The only real troublesome people were the ones who didn't want to learn new words (e.g. "Writer" instead of "Word"). But then again, they were also quarrelsome over 9x -> XP and XP -> 7 UI changes (not to mention "The Ribbon"); so they got the ultimatum of "you either use this, and I keep helping you, or you get W10 and figure it out on your own." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAlzj11oACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooFaKAgAgtTGfIiCHlJWIEg3YOfpiPPJgB7gEMAE6GQDyG7UTA3PTMMu56MFxiIa xduwvq4iu8pVk7C8Rr+fBbv2MqghMxgvixlp8Ue/osdCcZzDpEwqZJYH0GYqE9QF uZwv9SfjivQOE9aTwXWpHEIqzLIcz9o7Te04Z2BrTBf4aJmLIdCvhzD0xSNdb4cX BiZtAmS9BpIR2YsAIJ4DXquh5cJmk93w7r9NuToMapsxZc2zja5acnZiqcve64gk hVRjnO6YtZTmXYTrh+AueG4vv7MaGAj5zqe0dy4VKRulOD9czdg27wCKzGSsh+qc 24nZ95Ku6vQYp2NY/nI9B3oWfXvPrA== =tu+E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281