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

T wrote:

On 6/28/25 4:03 AM, WolfFan wrote:

On Jun 27, 2025, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote
(in article <103n7lb$dqtr$5@dont-email.me>):
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:53:13 -0400, WolfFan wrote:
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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.

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

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that’s why we have spares. The imagesetters shipped with NT4 systems. XP
was as far as the older software would go. New imagesetters cost north of
100k, the old ones work, and we have several units, so if one dies and we run
out of spares it’s not a big deal until we can gewt a replacement which
runs newer software. if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. it ain’t broke.
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You make a great point.
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It always depends on your use.  "supported software" is
not always appropriate.  Sometimes yes; sometimes no.
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There is a guy on the Windows group that has an off grid
system running XP.  It won't run on newer OS'es.  And he
is in no danger of anything from the Internet anyway.
He is not on it.
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what is he on ... glue