Nathan Ernst wrote, on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 8:33 PM > Deborah, long term, you have to realize that if you insist on > sticking to WinXP, the rest of the world will, eventually, > leave you behind.Software vendors want to support the fewest > platforms/configurations as possible. XP is not supported by > MS, so it makes no economic sense to an ISV to support XP.
Just to clarify, again (and again a dozen times), I will have a Linux machine again as soon as it's possible within my constraints. So please, all of you, stop beating me up about continuing to use XP. It really is a fine operating system, but everyone else wants to get on with their lives and stop supporting it. Not my fault, nor is it something I should be continually beat around the head about. I'm doing the best that I can. I'd like to see you know-it-alls do it as well as I have, as crippled up with something closely related to hydrocephalus for the last 15 years that the doctors gave up trying to diagnose in 2005 and dirt poor as I am. But I diagnosed it and I'm slowly getting well from it, and somehow I've managed to live in a house with a nice garage and my trusty '76 Toyota pickup - and no it wasn't my fairy godmother who gave it all to me. Some of us were born thrifty and resourceful. And I've been reading closely all the posts since I dropped out of this thread. I saw no point in replying "that's nice, but I didn't know that" to each one, but I'll definitely refer to this thread when I get this far. So thank you all. Deborah -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
