On Sun, 03 Mar 2019 02:54:15 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:

On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 07:32:00 +0000, PeterC
wrote:

OK, I'll risk excommunication: as an interim step, how does W8 compare with
W7 and W10?
I couldn't find a news group for W8, which should tell me something. I have
wondered if W8 could be tamed to be like W7. Thing is, I've managed to get
W7 very close to looking and feeling like XP, i.e. cut all the frippery and
crap.
Given the impending 'demise' of W7 I have wondered about W8. Sorry.

The short answer is yes.

The longer answer is that it took me two years to get 8/8.1 to look and
act like 7, but now there are very few clues that it's not actually 7.
If you have the time to invest, I'm sure you can get there much sooner
than I did.

The Windows 8 group is alt.comp.os.windows-8 but it doesn't get much
activity these days.

Thanks. So, sort of worth considering, if only to avoid W10.
Almost every day I see headlines on news feeds about how MS has yet again
borked W10. There seems to be no way of stopping an update until it's
sorted.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway