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To: Don Green who wrote (19245)	5/16/2017 6:06:07 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 33421

All my PCs save one old puny Acer laptop run Win10... I've been using it for over a year. I manage in spite of the effort of Microsoft to push me into their idiotic store. The Acer runs 7, and little surfing on that machine, mostly DuoLingo by my wife -g- My interest in shifting to Linux is mostly to get a more secure OS, which I know is partly because it isn't targeted by the mafia. But it is also open source, which results in dramatically smaller footprint over time, and usually higher reliability, although they've had a few missteps too of course. Hadn't heard of Hackintosh before, and sure I could do it. I wrote my own real-time OS one time which booted from EEPROM on a single board computer. But I have years of experience with SunOS, UNIX, and Linux. Nowadays, I'd rather process my photography that futz with the computer. My latest home-built model, which runs 24/7 to run my media server (for SqueezeBox clients) and my Davis weather station (the client, which publishes to web every 10 minutes) only consumes 27 watts. I picked my components carefully, and it still has a lot of horsepower, too.