Quote:
(extracts)
Another reason is Onenote. I run ON 2003
I have so many Excel macros (2003
Win10 seems ok but there is a control to every use
Today's computing is a dystopia
|
Completely of topic, but from what you say, you're a perfect client for linux, which is going on with the old vision that the user must control his OS and his software, not the contrary. You'll have to take some other habits, but not that many. Mint is effectively a good choice, but be aware that there is some linuxes (but with rough edge) for very old PC, as antiX for example. I'm running smoothly a debian stable with XFCE on a 12 years PC (with calibre 6 on it
, thank you, Theduck, for this information).
As for your old softs if you have enough RAM, you could put an old windows (XP or W7) on a virtual machine (virtualbox or other), denying acces to the net so you won't have any chance to catch a malware. I still have an XP in a VM where I run 2 old softs.
If you want to run windows softs under linux, another solution is Wine, a compatibility layer that let execute windows softs directly on linux, but not all softs are compatible.
The virtual machine trick is a solution even if you go W10 or W11, you could have a VM on it to run One Note and excel 2003.