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Old 01-24-2015, 09:31 PM   #102
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
There are a large group of users who just want to use the computer as a tool. And they want the tool to be unchanging (or only changing when they are ready for it to), because they don't want their carefully built reflexes to no longer work.

Newer is not better, merely different, in this day and age. Some times it's worse. Example, WIndows 7 no longer supported 16 bit Legacy applications. A clear design choice made by Microsoft. So? I have 16 bit Legacy programs I wanted to keep. I refured to scrap them, so I never upgraded. But that meant that when my hardware died, (or I wanted new hardware, I would be SOL. So I shifted to Linux. I can install any level of Mint I want, (as long as I keep the repositories - all the tested apps as well). And I virtualized my copy of XP, so i still have all my 16 bit Legacy programs (plus the virtual version boots like lightning).

So I'm not going back to the Microsoft world. I don't exist to feed the upgrade/subscription beasts. YMMV...
Tools need to be sharpened, cleaned and oiled.
Many updates are doing things like that.
Others take care of the Safety recalls.

Do you bin the car, appliance recall notices you get?
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