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[Mogrits]

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.
>
> --
> Steve W.
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