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

On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:57:50 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

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.

I have an old box, XP or 7, I forget which, that is powered down and off
the network. It has Visual Studio 6.0 and is kept around for the very slim
possibility I'll need to build a 25 year old map application. I tried to
update the app but it is so firmly wrapped around ancient MFC and third
part libraries by companies that no longer exist that I failed.

We tried very hard to move clients to a newer web based map with no
success. It comes to mind because a problem came up this week where a
feature was not displaying on a client's map. The problem was resolved by
rebuilding the layer with existing tools but the moral to the story is the
clients are still running this antique and love it.