Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 23:32:51 -0500 Message-ID: <573164CE.5462@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 21:34:22 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 27 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-o5DKcTfNgQjZgPbWXWRCikt3v4+MDs6dDVP2oNOvE+lZZ37BIQZJfKRSa1jwXabH7YP00CCoK8M+4FP!snBIfKWpN60OV0x6z1E2jTnH9KoyJtYo6gKviZIGWuzJ57MAGqSBDfU3hBfDrmMImNo9qDw9PtD6!Ypj5kmeNnqk= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2175 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:576957 comp.os.linux.advocacy:354424 Jeff-Relf.Me wrote: > > Â > You (MrAA) replied (to me): > > > It took me 11 hours to upgrade from Win8 to Win10. > > > > Why did you do it? > > Don't you think Linux should be the next step? > > I'm a _professional_ Windows programmer. > Besides, Win10 works great ! ! > > Linux simply doesn't have the software/drivers that I require. > > Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills; > but I'm not one of them, not at all. i'm pretty sure windows 10 works great just as long as you don't install anything else in it... that's why Mac/apple work great when it came out...nothing existed that you could install in it. Dos 1.0 worked great... then people bought virus software before they had a virus...so i had to sell them virues so they can test their virus software.