On 4 February 2016 at 15:57, j...@cimmeri.com <j...@cimmeri.com> wrote: > Well, my 2 cents: I still use WinXP for all my primary, workhorse machines. > Rarely have any issues with it.
I *really* hope you've applied the registry hack to get EposReady updates for it, then! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/26/german_tinkerer_gets_around_xpocalypse/ > Win7 is ok but annoyingly > over-user-friendly. Agreed. I don't like the ribbons, the new fake-folders in Explorer -- but it works, it's supported and updated. > Win 98, though... I don't see the point of using it > any more. It can't do anything that XP can't do far better. Agreed, as far as Win32 apps go. DOS stuff, though, no. :( To answer your offlist question, BTW: I am typing on an original Apple Extended II keyboard attached to a 2011 Mac mini running OS X 10.10, though an ADB-USB convertor. My laptops run Ubuntu although I experiment regularly with all the mainstream contenders. The workhorse is an old, cheap Thinkpad X200 with Ubuntu 14.04, the latest long-term support version. The desktop-replacement, now sidelined by the Mac, has Ubuntu 15.10, ArchLinux, CrunchBang and others. Both the PCs can dual-boot into Win7, although I don't use it as much as every *year* these days, so this always means a ton of updates before I can do anything. The Mac has a Win10 VM on it, just for playing with. I don't like it much, to be honest. The last Windows version I really liked was Windows 2000 -- since then, the bloat has piled on for little reward. XP can be stripped down to nearly as lean as W2K, though. I sometimes run the TinyXP 3rd party distro inside VMs. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
