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Originally Posted by rcentros
When XP's EOL was announced (for the first time, it kept getting "reprieves") that's when I made the move to Linux. I was determined that I wasn't going to use Vista. I think it's 15 or 16 years now. Never regretted the decision. I had already been dual-booting off and on.
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Yes, I'd been dual booting and changed our Windows Server to Linux years before final switch during Nov 2016 to Jan 2017. I'd bought the Lenovo with Win7 (and "free Win10 upgrade") about a month after win 7 sales ceased in 2016, but support actually ended very much later. I deleted the Win7 partition in 2017.
And the title of thread is "Replacing Kindle for PC in Linux". Suggesting to Linux users that they "go back" to Microsoft Windows isn't helpful. I think the best solution if someone is going to buy a lot of Amazon ebooks is a cheap (or S/H but not blacklisted) Kindle that has KF8/azw3 support and using "Download to PC" once it's registered. Less than the cost of 20 non-discount books.
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Some people even buy Macs and install Linux (it's been ported to M1 ARM) because they like Apple hardware.
Some people use a Raspberry Pi as a "laptop".
Only "crippled" versions of Windows run on ARM and mostly x86-64 Windows programs don't work.