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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:57:50 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

> On 2025/6/27 23:57:48, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:53:13 -0400, WolfFan wrote:
>> 
>>> 1. You don’t have to junk Win 10 if you don’t want to. I have XP and 7
>>> machines running, MS bailed on them a long time ago but they still work,
>>> I just have to be careful. ... because they run $150,000 imagesetters,
>>> that’s why. The imagesetters are very picky about their drivers (not
>>> really drivers, long story, but the imagesetters won’t work without
>>> them) and still work, and management will NOT be replacing them as long
>>> as they work.
>> 
>> Would you entrust mission-critical business functions to obsolete,
>> unsupported software?
> 
> To me, it's fairly obvious that he _is_ doing, with no disasters having 
> happened yet ...

Yeah, who needs seatbelts? I haven’t crashed yet, and I don’t plan to ...