On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 15:31:04 -0700, "Bill in Co"
surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:15:28 -0700, "Bill in Co"
surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote:

Mark Lloyd wrote:
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I hate Windows 10 too, and Windows 7 is not going to be supported.

https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop

At one time Windows 2000 was the best version ever. I kept using it for
about 3 years after that "end of life", which doesn't really mean much.
If you are worried about security patches, use Firefox for a browser (it
does more of the security stuff itself).

Eventually, you get to a point where incompatibility becomes too much of
a problem, but that is NOT what MS calls "end of life".

I expect Windows 7 to be like that too, you can use it safely as long as
Firefox supports it.

Most of the time, there's only a few programs I use that require
Windows, and those are very tolerant of old versions. They should
continue to work fine on W7 (I won't use anything later).

Johnny's alternative should work fine for mot things.

Firefox OR Chrome - it's gotten to the point that sometimes I need to use
Chrome on a few sites (mostly the ones with video)


It's interesting to me that you see FireFox and Chrome as alternatives
to each other. I don't. As far as I'm concerned, FireFox is the best
available browser and Chrome is among the worst--possibly better than
Edge and IE, but that's all.

Trust me, I'm not a fan of Chrome. But Chrome works on some sites where FF
(the latest version I can use on Windows XP) doesn't - especially on some
sites with some videos. So I'm still using Windows XP for the most part,
since I am annoyed by all the restrictions imposed on me in all the later
versions of the OS.


OK, understood.