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Originally Posted by pl001
So long as you never upgrade your hardware for any reason, sure, that will work.
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It's a 6 year old computer. It won't be upgraded anymore. Therefore Windows 7 and all programs will run on it as long as the hardware survives; and that's the entire point. I don't have to change anything until something happens on *MY* end.
I've actually dropped Linux (again), because I found out that it's annoying (and often impossible) to get it to NOT upgrade stuff. It's all connected. If you want to upgrade X, you must upgrade library A, which forces you to also upgrade Y (because it uses A), but Y also uses B, which must therefore be upgraded, causing Z to break if you don't upgrade THAT as well.... and so on. Yes, the package manager does it all, but it feels like an all-or-nothing situation.
I've found that even more annoying than having to upgrade 5 or 10 applications by hand on Windows.
A Chromebook, or any platform that runs mostly online is essentially the same: if it changes, it changes, and you can't do anything about it, and I don't like that.
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Originally Posted by Graham
Exactly. Sure, we lose independence of the sort Katsunami is espousing, but we gain a lot too. Look at the hoops Katsunami is willing to jump through.
I've made the choice to give up that freedom along with its tedious hoops. In return I've gained a very welcome and different sort of freedom (seamless operation across all my devices), along with much more of that precious commodity, spare time.
Graham
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What are you going to do if the one vendor you made yourself depend upon does something that you *REALLY* don't like? If you're invested heavily enough, you might even not be able to leave.