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On 5/26/25 11:10 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2025-05-26, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 26/05/2025 19:11, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-05-26, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Those that I know personally who were interested, did specifically
>>>> mention freedom, and moving away from corporate control and politics.
>>>> Usability is an issue, but they should understand what they are getting
>>>> into.
>>>
>>> As convincing that argument is for some of us, Linux won't gain
>>> widespread acceptance because J. Random Luser doesn't really
>>> care about freedom.  It's enough that the screens are shiny.
>>>
>> I certainly didn't move to linux for any ideological freedom.
>>
>> I moved because it worked better than Windows and cost less.
>> That balance shifted around WinXP time.
>>
>> I'd been using Unix and Linux on servers for years before that.
> 
> Ironically, it's XP that I run under VirtualBox for times that
> I need it.  This includes software development; in addition to
> Linux, my stuff runs under - or should I say despite - Windows,
> and I do back-end stuff so I don't need the eye candy extensions.
> IMHO Windows' usability peaked somewhere between 2000 and XP and
> has been going downhill ever since.


   I have a Win2k, and I think XP VMs somewhere. However
   I haven't run either for a LONG time.

   Actually have VMs of most everything from CP/M-86
   thru Win 1.1 and such somewhere. Win 1.1 was just
   TERRIBLE - better stuff for Commodores. My old
   boss BOUGHT a copy. DO have a BYTE Mag REVIEW of
   Win 1.1, paper mag ... I'm keeping that !

   DO sometimes run the old DOS multi-pass compilers
   for 'C' and Pascal, just for fun. There are one or
   two sites where you can download all that stuff.

   Anyway, IF I needed Win these days, I'd run it
   as a VM, not a real install. XP seems to cover
   99% of possible needs, so that's about a far as
   you need to go. After that ....... oh, the
   horror ..........