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Re: OT: Windows 10 free upgrade



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