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In reply to the discussion: All Good Things Must End... [View all]bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)It wasn't that Vista no longer ran, it became incompatible with the internet. They told me things would have ssecurity problems. What actually happened was things just didn't work any more. Site just hung.
Linux was not too steep a learning curve. I love LibreOffice. I run Firefox and Chromium, simultaneously, with 10-12 tabs, on a Core 2 Duo at 2.0 GHZ.
Although I still would like a Win10 machine for certain online software, it's not crippling me. I have no plan to use WIN10 for browsing the internet. I'll install Linux beside Win10 or WinXP instead. Yeah, I still have an XP MCE. Someday I plan to figure out how to use it.
My main complaint is to try to greatly reduce the time I spend online. Some activities are becoming more efficient, but the list of activities grows. I don't use a smart phone, need to add that too.
Hope this helps with your Cruncher perspective. I'm not really sure what it is, sounds like about a 2005 laptop.