Also apologies for continuing the off-topic :-). On Win7 I use elap.rex as my shell, so no problems there :-). Also for me Win 7 is very stable -- last reboot was in January, or thereabouts, and that only because I installed a new application (that probably didn't need a reboot, in truth). My big complaint/problem with Win10 is that its windows don't have borders, and since I often have 6 or more open when programming (editing a few source files, running test cases, viewing text files) and many have the same background colour (blue or black) everything merges together and it is really hard to read one thing from another. I suppose I could write a new editor that included a border, but having written 13 text editors already in this lifetime I'd rather do something new ... :-) Mike
_____ From: P.O. Jonsson [mailto:oor...@jonases.se] Sent: 14 July 2021 14:50 To: Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx on Windows 8 This is getting off topic (ooRexx on Windows versions) but briefly: Like most people I liked Windows 7 for is useful GUI and hated W8 for the opposite reason. W10 brought some usefulness back but I always add Classic Shell to it to make it more like W7. Hint for Mike. W10 is IMO really stable by now and I have it running for weeks without getting messed up. Compared to W7 where I had to reboot daily it is an improvement. Also it is not getting gobbled up with garbage so I do not have to reinstall it every year as I had to do with W7. I had a Windows 8 copy standing unused in its box (like most W8 copies :-) ) so I thought I could put it to use for ooRexx. I am having some problems running the test framework, unclear why. See Ticket 1774 for details. It might be related to the fact that I am using a newer Visual Studio version than the official W10 Jenkins build machine. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, P.O. Jonsson oor...@jonases.se Am 14.07.2021 um 15:07 schrieb Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.sfrg...@letterboxes.org>: On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, at 22:31, P.O. Jonsson wrote: Hi Jeremy, Squawk! It is 8.1. Professional, and I do not think anyone in his right mind is actually using Windows 8 or 8.1 for that matter ;-) Well, I'm using 8.1. Right mind? See my initial comment... (I have a thing about birds and - elsewhere - often squawk or quack as a greeting. My professional guise must just have slipped.) In my case I'm never likely to be an early adopter of any of the MS OSes as they don't seem to be able to get things right, at the start. I'd expected by now to be using Win 10, but there never seems to be enough time and spare energy/concentration (I have a chronic illness) to configure a new machine, reinstall all the applications I use - probably in newer versions - and migrate my own programs onto it. It's nearly at the top of my to-do list though... The whole point in installing Windows 7 and Windows 8 is to see if they behave differently in the build and test of ooRexx. Ah. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
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