Windows XP, POS, (no not Piece of Sheit, just stop, I meant, stop), is
still getting full support, and all you have to do with an old XP
installation to get these updates is change or add, if it doesn't exist,
a flag to the registry.
Hell I'd still be using XP except that a good AV program and third party
fire wall were no longer available, and oh yes, I am using one photo
editing application that I just couldn't hack into running under XP, but
I don't really need it, there were after all alternatives, but it was
the security programs that were most important.
I keep my primary development system on a laptop, so I don't really need
the most up to date OS on my Photo Editing/General purpose desktop, in
fact a lot of the more useful applications I'm using wouldn't run, and
have no current equivalents for Win 10.
With XP I just needed to be aware to not allow automatic downloads and
not click on unsolicited links from Nairobi based Princes and
Princess. Which is pretty much what you should do even if you're
running the latest and greatest OS anyway.
On 2/28/2018 12:58 PM, John wrote:
That's why I'm considering going the Hackintosh route; let OS X be the
emulator.
OTOH, Windows7 may not be quite that dead. There are a lot of Government
systems out there running Windows7; even some still running XP. That's a
BIG chunk of the market to just cut yourself off from.
And maybe before I have to make a change someone will write a better
image editing software program for Linux.
As Scarlet O'hara says, "Fiddle dee dee, I'll worry about that tomorrow."
On 2/28/2018 11:09, P. J. Alling wrote:
Except that now you're going to be running any PC software under and
emulator, which might or might not work perfectly...
I'm pretty sure that Adobe CC products will be nearly, or completely
impossible to install that way. You might be able to get the stand
alone versions to work, but that means no more updates for you.
A while back I looked at the GIMP for windows and was appalled at the
UI. OK so it was probably just my Adobe use biasing me. But life is
too short to learn to use a UI that seems to be different only for
differences sake, especially since it at the time it was so far
behind Adobe that my years old version of Photoshop was just as
capable.
On 2/28/2018 12:37 AM, mike wilson wrote:
On 28 February 2018 at 04:34 John <sesso...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
On 2/27/2018 14:28, John Francis wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 02:04:12PM -0500, John wrote:
My new laptop just arrived. I finally broke down and ordered
a refurbished HP Elitebook from Newegg. Intel i5, 16GB RAM,
512GB SSD, DVD??RW, Windoze7 PRO 64-bit.
Replaces my 11 year old Toshiba. I expect I'll finally be
able to run Photoshop CS6 Extended on a laptop.
This might be a good time to reconsider your position on
Windows 10. You've got two years left before Microsoft drop all
support for W7. That means there won't even be any security
updates after Jan 2020.
F*** 'em. I'll figure out how to install Linux ... or maybe turn
it into a Hackintosh.
UBUNTU is an easy install. Download the file and write it to a DVD
- maybe a memory stick by now, shove it in the machine and follow
instructions. Automatically installs Firefox and Thunderbird.
(Windows) problems fixed, permanently.
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