[Coco] OT: MS shenanigans, XP, Win10...

[Wayne Campbell]

I agree with using Firefox over Internet Exploder. I refuse to use IE
except when I have no choice. On this laptop, Firefox has issues. I have
downloaded Chrome, but I still prefer Firefox even with its issues. I never
have virus problems with Firefox. I have been a Mozilla fan ever since
Netscape 2. I was saddened when Netscape was sold to AOL, but was relieved
when Mozilla came out with Firefox.

When I visit a site that Firefox warns me about I close the tab and move
on. I am so done with the BS. NO I do not need a newer version of flash
when I have the latest version already! Thank you very much! LOL

Thanks for the info on Mint. I might just go that route when I get a new
system. The only thing I will miss from Windows is the 3rd party software
that doesn't have versions for other OSes. I like TextPad for my text
editing. It is a programmer's editor and gives me capabilities I have never
found in any other text editor. I am a Sokoban player, and while there are
versions of the game for other OSes (Mac in particular), my favorite is
called Sokoban YASC and is only written for Windows. It is written in
Delphi Pascal, which is a neat thing to me. I don't know if it could be
recompiled for other platforms or not. There are a few others, but they
aren't as important to me as the two named above.


On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Francis Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:

> While I run XP on one of my computers still attached to the Internet, I
> should have added that I run Firefox, NOT Windows Explorer. With Explorer I
> was getting a good many attacks, don't notice any with Firefox. I don't
> visit questionable sites either, just a few that I know should be "clean".
> If I have any unknown sites to visit I do so with my Linux Mint machine
> first.
>
> Mint is a viable alternative, and pretty easy to switch to from XP. That's
> the main system on what was my main computer. Since getting married and
> moving into my wife's house I've been using her computer more, which I
> recently upgraded to Windows 10. I still prefer Mint and may switch one of
> her computers to it, but running it in a Oracle Virtual Box for now. Dual
> boot is an option, but hard to do with Win10 already installed and no
> install media to work with. Had to return one refurbed computer that I
> tried dual booting with and accidentally lost the backup partition. The
> company had no way to make me new media, so told me to send the thing back
> for a replacement.
>
> If you're going to run Mint for an extended time I suggest you install the
> latest LTS (long term service) version. That is guaranteed to be supported
> for at least three years. Otherwise they make a new "version" every six
> months. You don't have to upgrade, I run Mint 9 on an older laptop because
> it's the latest version that will run fast on older hardware (Pentium 4 800
> MHz in my case), but it helps to know you want need to upgrade for three
> years. The latest 17.2 is a LTS version, so it's a good time!
>
> Mint was intended to be as user friendly to install and ready to use as
> possible. So they use some proprietary software (but free to use) for
> things like video drivers and codecs for music and video. In the later
> respect it's more ready to use than Windows. You might have to run down a
> driver for some obscure piece of hardware, but for most it will install and
> run with no issues.  Frank Swygert
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