Thanks Steve,
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On 2025-05-03 12:50, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:54:45 -0700
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I have one app that is windows only. I am not going to upgrade to
win11.
Why not? Is Win11 really that incompatible with Win10? Is this an app
you wrote, or something somebody else sold you? You're a PHP
programmer: Why don't you just make a program that does the same thing?
The app is a video editor. I use it to make YouTube videos.
I'm having trouble understanding this whole thread. First, the old
African proverb: The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the
second best time is now.
I went M$ free in 2000 for 8 months. Do not recall why I returned to
Win at that time.
Then about 12 to 14 years ago I tried to free myself of M$. I was free
for a while and then I needed Windows for business reasons.
Now my life and business dealing are much different. AND Linux has
matured to the level that it now fits my needs. My daily driver used to
run Win10 and about 3 years ago it got corrupted. So I migrated to
Kubuntu.
I'm thinking I need to convert my work laptop, that might be 8 years
old, to Kubuntu and embrace Kdenlive. I understand several people on
the list use Kdenlive and my needs are simple.
I took the punch in the early 00's and went Windows-free. Yeah, it was
tough. Yeah, I still miss my beloved Micrografx Windows Draw program,
because it was better than Inkscape. But now the only thing this
impending Win10 drop does to me is allows me to get a half decent
computer, to use with Linux, at pre-tariff prices.
A friend of mine that is on this list uses both old hardware and runs
Wine for his editing software.
OK, if you didn't convert 20 years ago, it can still be done now. You
have five months. If the app was written by you, you have 5 months to
adapt it to Win11. It will probably take 48 hours. If it's somebody
else's app, you can probably find a Linux alternative.
I Agree.
I've seen people in this thread speaking as if buying a new computer
was the equivalent of buying your first house. If Windows is important
to you, $3K for a fully loaded desktop isn't unreasonable. Hell, I paid
$4.5K for a 486-10 in 1990, which is probably the equivalent of $9K
now. It seems to me that if Windows is important to you, you pay for
the privilege every 5 years. If it's not, just jam Linux on the Win10
machine and get the performance you would have gotten from a brand new
Win11 machine.
I have lots of old hardware. All have SSD drives and most have some
level of RAM upgrade. Eventually I would like to build a box that has
12 cores/24 threads with 2 - raid 0 (mirroring) 2TB SSD drives and 128GB
of RAM. That is over kills for me and might be my last computer.
The longer we kick the Win2Lin conversion can down the road, the more
opportunity we give Bill Gates' descendants to uproot our computer
lives at a whim. Kind of like they're doing on October 14, 2025.
I think we are the same ago, I'm sure you recall the old 8088 garage
clones. Bill was changing things back then. He was accused of adding
logic that helped his team build better apps. I recall he was really
hated back then. I used Windows in 95 because that is what my employer
gave me.
Desktop Linux never promised to be as good as Windows in every respect.
It never promised to run every windows app. What Linux *did* promise
was the GNU GPLv2: The ability to modify and pass on the modifications.
The GPLv2 enables you to find new ways to do the workflow formerly
accomplished by Windows and other proprietary software. It might not be
as pretty. It might require me to write shellscripts and make other
accommodations. But the job gets done. And in the majority of cases,
the job gets done much better than it ever did on Windows.
Bottom line: It would have been great to get rid of Windows 20 years
ago, and the second best time is right now. Throw the thing off your
computer, and declare your independence from Gates, Ballmer, and all
those who followed.
I agree, however it will not happen today but must happen by Oct.
Thanks for your feedback!!
- Keith
SteveT
Steve Litt
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