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Old 08-22-2018, 03:54 PM
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A friend of mine works for a railway company in the UK, whose ^new^ equipment--which was long in development--runs on Windows XP. He writes his own software, and switched back to Windows 7 after trying Windows 10. The planned 2020 cessation of Windows 7 support may not occur, due to the widespread rejection of Windows 10 (it's not that Windows 10 doesn't work, but that it takes more keystrokes and screens to do the same things that 7 already does--radio stations and video production facilities hate 10 for that reason). In any event, I used Commodore software and Windows 98 and XP for years after support for them ended. I know nothing about Linux other than its name, and if my computer shop isn't familiar with it, I would be leery of switching to it.
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