Msg: Re: OT: Windows 10 free upgrade

Thanks, Kari. I always benefit from your insight and suggestions.

I had tried CentOS at one point, among many Linux distros that

I sampled or attempted to; that one did not boot here for some

unknown reason, as I recall. Zorin was probably not on that list

(Mageia was, for example), but I'll look for a Live CD of it. The

more Windows like it is -- though not like 8 or 10 ! -- the better.

So you choose Virtualbox over VMWare ? Is it just a matter of

what you happen to be running / emulating, or are there additional

reasons ?

Jordan

On Thursday, July 4, 2019, 11:43:17 PM PDT, Kari Eveli <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jordan,

I share most of your thoughts about Win10. I have to sometimes fix and
install things on my son's Win10 machine. It is frustrating to work
with, and my son ridicules my ineptitude with Win10. It is not a
tempting proposition. Your can safely continue to do many things with a
virtual copy of Win7 by cutting it off the net. Logically, the main
operating system should be connected to the internet. This is something
that I have found very usable with my Win2K virtual machine that I use
to run some DOS apps, Win 3.1x apps (Quark, Ventura), Adobe Acrobat 6,
Pagemill, etc. I have not encountered any problems with this setup, I
communicate with the main operating system via shared folders.

The main operating system could be Win10 or Linux (Zorin OS - Windows
lookalike with Wine, Ubuntu - widely supported, CentOS - root
priviledges, more professional). Oracle VirtualBox is my preferred
platform for running virtual machines.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx

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> If you must, you must. Admittedly, this has much to do
> with my loathing of W-10 and pointed avoidance of it, but
> I am continually exasperated when I revisit it by the many,
> many -- and completely unnecessary -- re-namings and
> relocation of basic and formerly familiar items or procedures.
> So much time wasted on that ! (I'd love to find a good,
> tabular "equivalences" cheat sheet, but even then . . . . )
>
> I've already found plenty of things that worked just fine in 7
> but which are incompatible with 10. I don't know what I'm
> going to do. Maybe take my 7's offline, and use Linux or
> something else for things like webcrawling. Or dive into
> VMs.
>
> Jordan
>