![]() I guess there is no way that a privacy-honoring, easy-to-use, easy-to-migrate-to, powerful, reliable, affordable alternative to Windows 7 will emerge in the next couple of years. I also don’t care about their version of the coolness factor and the whole supposed Silicon Valley mystique bore off, I say. – I guess there’s Google Chrome – which I don’t know very much about, except that I don’t like or trust Google. Again, it’s a steep learning curve, in a subject that I have no inherent interest in, beyond using it as a tool (like I don’t need to know how to build my own car engine or change the sparkbelt on the rear axle’s bailiwick, I just need the key, a tank of gas, and working headlights!) – My small experience with Linux, which went better than expected and left me with much admiration for the version that I used, showed me that it’s not something I would want to use/be capable of using as my full-time operating system. I don’t exactly feel reverential regarding the mythology surrounding their original big cheese. I don’t care about their hipness factor (in fact I’d rather not be associated with it, chuckle). I just don’t want to invest a lot of time in a new learning curve and replicating everything in a different system. I feel that they have not displayed integrity, openness, honesty, fairness, value-for-money not honored customers’ privacy, choices, expectations not honored their own promises, have sunk to desperate measures and doublespeak, etc.) – I don’t want to go to Windows 10 (even if it sounded like an attractive operating system to me, which it doesn’t) because I don’t trust or like MS now. I do worry about what choice(s) I will have to move on to,
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