Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On 2025/6/27 23:57:48, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:53:13 -0400, WolfFan wrote:

1. You don’t have to junk Win 10 if you don’t want to. I have XP and 7
machines running, MS bailed on them a long time ago but they still work,
I just have to be careful. ... because they run $150,000 imagesetters,
that’s why. The imagesetters are very picky about their drivers (not
really drivers, long story, but the imagesetters won’t work without
them) and still work, and management will NOT be replacing them as long
as they work.

Would you entrust mission-critical business functions to obsolete,
unsupported software?

To me, it's fairly obvious that he _is_ doing, with no disasters having
happened yet; he's "careful", which _isn't_ something beyond rather more
of us than the FUDders would like us to believe.
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