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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I have WinXP too, it comes in handy as a source for Windows so I can run ADE. 
It functions for what I need it for, that is what matters.
But shame on you for not being principled enough to ditch WinXP on moral grounds and help rid the world of its scurrilous presence!    |
Shame on you for shaming me, eschwartz! I have not one, but two trusty XP computers; one a now-10+-year-old Lenovo Thinkpad, and a desktop box that just refuses to die, but has a motherboard that precludes updating/upgrading it. My own personal desktop is a Win7 box; my personal laptop is a Win8 new Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga (
love it!). I thought I would find the new touch-type interface confusing, but I guess I've spent so many hours sitting at my desktop with a device of whatever kind in my hands, going back and forth between typing and flipping/sliding/tapping that it comes utterly naturally to me.
Vis-à-vis editors: you know, I relayed a story--I think it was here--about a guy on the K forums that went apes**t on me, called me a liar on those for a, for saying we code in html editors. Said only crazy or incompetent people do that, that "everyone" uses an HTML editor like whats-it, um...Dreamweaver, or MSExpressionWeb or one of those GUI/WYSIWYG editors. I've never actually used one of those; not on principle, but just...the first guy that really taught me ePUBs, after I taught myself MOBI (yeah, verily, back in the mobipocket days), used NoteTab Pro...so I used that. Loved it. Then another guy who has moved on used Epsilon. And yes, wowza, that sucker has some juice, so I use that. I understand, from my crew chief that's actually a real-live programmer that it does stuff that's way beyond what I use it for. It is, after all, an eMacs, um...homage, for lack of a better word?
Anyway, I digress: my point is this: the "right" editor is the one you use. It's the one that gets the work done for you. It's what makes your life easy. Ditto OS's, really. {shrug}. So, while I'm perfectly willing to slug out any number of topics, flaming over editors or OS's...not really my thing. :-)
Hitch