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The people stuck using ancient Windows computers? BBC rip.

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RobRich:
I run CachyOS (Arch-based Linux) on my primary daily notebook, but I do keep various virtualized OS installs available on the system. Win11 is mostly for Windows software build testing where Wine does not always suffice, but I keep other Windows versions just in case... or perhaps some nostalgia. ReactOS can replace Windows in some roles, though admittedly, that can be a YMMV situation.




On the HPC side, my primary software build box is a Xeon 96-core 192-thread server with 256GB memory, enterprise-class SSD RAID storage, etc. Ubuntu Server for ease pf compatibility's sake with particular open source software I build.

BTW, I still even have an HP Itanium 2 workstation. It is mostly useless anymore, but there is a version of WinXP for it. I used Debian on it.

The Mercian:
I've re-purposed an old Windows 10 machine and a couple of Apple laptops with Linux Mint (ubuntu based) - I've been very impressed at how far the Linux desktop has come since my early dabbling 10 or so years ago.

M R I:
I still use XP not connected to the internet to play music and waterfalls and make QSL’s. I have the partition backed up with bootit bare metal boot manager and have restored it many times before finding I had bad caps in the power supply that I fixed. I have used this computer since 2005 because it just works and sounds great. I run low latency DSP processing on a windows 7 computer because of the low number background processes compared to 10 and 11. I have a few windows 10 and 11 along with Vista computers with older Mac’s running the current OSX version with Opencore.

W4JDY1953:
Nonsense from a 52 year long career engineer of which 24 years were as a naval aviator, now the author of the USAF System Security Engineering Cyber Guidebook (v5.0 the last version I penned since 2019).

Problem stems from lousy political appointees vice civil servant careerists in leadership roles, too much checklist engineering by these CIO's staffs thinking NIST RMF Controls are requirements, and the fact that as technology moves forward as O/S do, the departments and agencies did no real budget planning as rarely do committees and PEOs listen to their engineers or Users.

Like it our not Windows and Office are the world's predominant software, but the malforms used should have been upgraded a decade ago.

If the US can find the money to fund our enemies as prior to Trump, then we had the money to refresh our AIS/IS systems.

skeezix:
I still use win 7 to record DGPS and will continue until Gatun and Miraflores go off the air.

Also have a win 10 box for gaming & misc radio programming stuff. Need it to program my BCD436HP and Zachtek WSPR Desktop.  It'll be staying on win 10 for a while yet as win 11 is not compelling enough to waste time and money doing that. The win 10 box is nine years old and the 11 upgrade tool claims it's not good enough... but won't tell me why. Why not tell me? Typical m$. 

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