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To: Eric L who wrote (96864)	6/9/2017 1:54:14 PM
From: steve harris	2 Recommendations Recommended By Eric L goldworldnet Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110626

What is deterring you from doing so, Steve? You extol the virtues of Linux and I'm sure you could choose a distro that would run fine on your Vista DPE and suit your taste. What's a DPE? Skip to the end if you want the short version. Long history, but the newest parts of the story are I moved onto Linux when you couldn't keep Win98 or W2k running for more than a few hours without something happening. WinME? No different than Win8 or Win10 to me, ugly and not user friendly. I loved KDE2, the best desktop GUI I have seen and nothing better since. Ran the Mandrake distribution, was the first to have the package manager and auto updates, like windows! Alas, KDE3 came along and was slower, bloated garbage. Mandrake became Mandriva, and XP was out at about the same time iirc, so I took the time and moved to Windows XP. Also my new job required I run PCAnywhere which there was nothing compatible on Linux. XP end of life was coming up and my old computer was getting long in the tooth. Found some off lease stuff on ebay pretty cheap. I got a HP 5850 AMD Phenom quad core with Vista Business and that is what I'm still running today. Ran Ubuntu on and off here and there but then they decided to copy the Win8 desktop and get rid of the start button at vers 10 to version 11 upgrade, no thanks. I'm nearing retirement now, my bleeding edge computer demands these days are mostly email and Internet. I don't care if it's Windows, Linux, are CPM, as long as it's user friendly and looks like a desktop GUI that I have been using since Win95 with a start button and a few icons I can throw on the desktop. A simple control panel with intuitive links to computers settings sure helps. Why they decided to turn the XP control panel upside down and start over was nuts. Good luck on asking a coworker to change the IP address on that new Win8 laptop he just got. Oh, and then MSFT decided everyone in the world needed to throw out all they had learned with Office and start over with a completely new Office 2007. Remember that? Productive people around the world were suddenly novices again and had to relearn Office, a completely new GUI that was not user friendly. New is better they said! My rear end..... Being old and cynical, when people tell me I have to move to Win10 because it's the "newest" and because MSFT, Firefox, Adobe, and others will end up breaking my working Vista Business as they did with Win98, Win2k, etc, good luck with that. I bought WinME and I sure ain't going to repeat that mistake and buy Win8 or Win10 or Win101 anytime soon. To shorten the story up as much as I can, a $50 box off ebay loaded with Linuxmint is very appealing when compared to moving to Win10. Blaming the consumer when his XP and Vista computer begins working slower and slower with each passing day, is a losing business model imho.