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Mogrits mogrits at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 08:35:15 PDT 2017


Oh, definitely "Winders". And that button in the lower left of the screen?
Just "mash it".

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have been wondering... Since the US seems to be becoming more redneck, am
> I using Windows 10 or Winders 10?
> :-)
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Mogrits <mogrits at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you are going to do Windows, I do recommend you upgrade to Windows 10,
> > then download and install a program called "Classicshell" which will make
> > it look like 7 or XP, whatever you are comfortable with.
> >
> > Windows 10 seems to be very stable but I hate it's interface.
> >
> > Warren
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Steve W. <swilliams268 at frontier.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Spencer Yost wrote:
> > > > Having been a c/c++ developer on  dozen flavors of unix for decades,
> > > > I can tell you Linux  is a superior operating system by far(except
> > > > for Digital's openVMS but considering that hasn't been available for
> > > > 15 years I concede it it no longer a contender).   Hell, Apple IOS is
> > > > a variant of BSD(Berkeley Software Distribution.  I can't believe
> > > > Dave recommends anything from Berkeley!).  It's reliable, easy to
> > > > use, very secure and free from most of the pesky viruses, free to use
> > > > and resource frugal so you would think everyone would use it.   But
> > > > being open sourced and not branded or backed by a corporation the
> > > > non-IT public is unaware and/or lack confidence to use it.
> > > >
> > > > I challenge everyone to install it on their old machine whenever they
> > > > upgrade.   Use their new windows machine to handle day to day stuff
> > > > and use their old Machine to learn Linux.  You will thank me.  I
> > > > currently recommend Ubuntu.
> > > >
> > > > At the very least get a Mac.   Windows is a necessary evil in the
> > > > corporate world but the average home user does not have to put up
> > > > with Microsoft.
> > > >
> > > > Spencer Yost
> > > >
> > >
> > > Wal~Mart runs the big distribution centers on Unix. They have been
> > > playing with switching them over to some flavor of Linux and discovered
> > > a LOT of problems. The one my wife works at just wiped Linux off the
> > > system because it just didn't work.
> > >
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