[Coco] OT: Upgrade to Windows 10? -- Upgrade to Linux?

[Bruce W. Calkins]

On 11/22/2015 03:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 22 November 2015 10:09:20 Francis Swygert wrote:
>
>> Gene, at this time I am trying to learn more about Linux

> The last windows I had was XP, came on an HP laptop I bought for use on
> the road. 100Gb drive, I immediately shrunk the windows partition to
> 20Gb and installed the french version that has changed hands and names
> several time in the last 15 years.  I found out that keeping the XP
> around didn't mean diddly because the XP drivers for the radio in it
> were also worthless. So next install, fedora IIRC, wiped out the windows
> partition.  Several other versions have been installed over the last 13
> years, currently running lubuntu 14.04 LTS.

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> Cheers, Gene Heskett
I may as well chime in: I shifted this household's on-line computers to 
Linux Mint 17 a couple months ago.  Both "new" machines are late XP 
vintage machines.  The biggest hurdle was converting the old machine's 
Outlook Express E-mail files to Mozilla's Thunderbird and transferring 
those files to the "new" Linux machines and educating the new machines 
to retrieve E-mail from the ISP's server.  There are several 
step-by-step how-to tutorials on-line and I had no real problem 
following the one I printed out.  Aside from a very few obscure Windows 
only programs (Amateur Radio programing and Texas Instruments calculator 
support) there have been notably few issues in the switch.  The wife's 
machine has a minor hardware issue and that her reluctance to learn the 
new tools have been the only real complaints I've heard.  I have had to 
rebuild the church bulletin because the original fonts are not supported 
in LibreOffice, but that is more of a text formatting issue, and not 
really OS related.
Bruce W.