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Re: Life after Windows 7

From Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Life after Windows 7
Date 2019-05-21 10:47 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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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."

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Life after Windows 7 Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-21 13:07 +1000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-05-21 07:27 +0000
    Re: Life after Windows 7 Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-21 19:17 +1000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-05-21 11:09 +0100
    Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-29 18:19 +0100
      Re: Life after Windows 7 ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-05-29 21:19 -0500
        Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-30 17:24 +0100
          Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-06-02 19:11 +0100
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 10:14 +0000
    Re: Life after Windows 7 "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2019-05-21 12:54 +0200
      Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 10:58 +0000
      Re: Life after Windows 7 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-05-21 12:28 -0400
        Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 19:49 +0000
        Re: Life after Windows 7 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-22 22:30 -0400
        Re: Life after Windows 7 Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> - 2019-06-07 20:54 +0000
          Re: Life after Windows 7 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-06-07 23:07 -0400
            Re: Life after Windows 7 Ryan Kavanagh <rkavanagh@cs.cmu.edu> - 2019-06-08 12:30 -0400
          Re: Life after Windows 7 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-08 10:11 -0400
            Re: Life after Windows 7 Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> - 2019-06-08 19:31 +0000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-21 10:47 +0000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-21 11:28 +0000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> - 2019-05-21 08:43 -0400
  Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-29 18:16 +0100
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-16 23:00 +0000
    Re: Life after Windows 7 Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-16 23:18 +0000
      Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-17 08:40 +0000
    Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-17 08:35 +0000

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