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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Do =?UTF-8?Q?Microsoft=E2=80=99s?= Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 08:09:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-05-28 8:40 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-05-28, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-27 9:33 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 27 May 2024 07:53:13 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2024-05-26 7:18 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 26 May 2024 09:06:43 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I upgraded to Linux from Windows XP.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You're in the minority no matter how you spin it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Where are the Windows XP users? Gone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Where are the Linux users? More numerous than ever.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Who’s the “minority” now?
>>>>>
>>>>> Linux, still. The XP users went to 7 once they could and upgraded their
>>>>> machines.
>>>>
>>>> Really? Windows 7? Is that the best the poor things could do?
>>>
>>> Are you purposefully dense? I'm going in chronological order.
>>>
>>> Those who had machines which could capably run Windows XP did so until
>>> 2014 when Microsoft stopped supporting the product. At that point, if
>>> they saw the lack of support as a problem, they upgraded their machines
>>> to one running 7 or 8.1. They didn't say "let me hold onto this 2001
>>> machine and run some shit Linux distribution on it."
>> 
>> I moved from XP to Linux and Linux wasn't shit. Windows Vista, now that
>> truly was shit.
>
> It wasn't good on poor hardware, but it ran rather well on decent 
> hardware. The only issue I ever faced with it (out of beta) was that it 
> took an exceptionally long time to refresh the Windows Explorer. It 
> suggested that my filesystem was complex when it wasn't. At the time, I 
> actually preferred to just use Linux too, but 7 brought me back.

I have a laptop that still has Vista on it. A dell E6400 Dual Core. I bought 
it cheap several years ago on Craig's List. It came with a pirated version 
of Windows 7 corporate something or other, which I deleted. It had a Vista 
license, so I put some effort into finding Vista for it, installing it and 
finding the drivers. By this time Vista had been abandoned, so it was the 
latest version. I dual-booted Linux Mint on that computer, so hardly ever 
used Vista — it was just a challenge to see if I could install it. By the 
end of its run, Vista was pretty much Windows 7, but that's not how it 
started when it was first released. I still have that computer and it will 
still dual-boot, to outdated Vista and outdated Linux Mint 18. I kind of 
keep it as a backup, but even the latest release of Vista didn't seem too 
impressive to me. (I had already been using Linux for about several years by 
the time I used Vista.)

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