It has been a nice run...

There were some curious comments here.
@William2020 Would you care to reread my post above? Actually, I suggest you do and read all of it.Then maybe you will see that Win 7's EOL is not the only reason I'm defecting from MS and the entire Windows platform.
@Brink Your post sounded almost like I would fail at using Linux and be forced to return to Windows in Win 10. Nope, ain't going to happen! I still have a lot to learn about Linux but I'm already using it full time (like right now, for example). The only time I've fired up my Win 7 machine is to move some data over to the Linux machine.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Maybe I'll drop back in a few days (then again, maybe not).

Lady Fitzgerald said:

There were some curious comments here.
@William2020 Would you care to reread my post above? Actually, I suggest you do and read all of it.Then maybe you will see that Win 7's EOL is not the only reason I'm defecting from MS and the entire Windows platform.
@Brink Your post sounded almost like I would fail at using Linux and be forced to return to Windows in Win 10. Nope, ain't going to happen! I still have a lot to learn about Linux but I'm already using it full time (like right now, for example). The only time I've fired up my Win 7 machine is to move some data over to the Linux machine.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Maybe I'll drop back in a few days (then again, maybe not).

Just hoping you will stop by and say hello from time to time.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

...but it is time for me to say goodbye to all my cyber friends here and Seven Forums. With Win 7 reaching EOL in a week and me defecting from the entire Windows platform in favor of Linux, there is really nothing more I can contribute or learn here anymore, other than proselytizing Linux as a replacement for Win 7, which is not really the scope of Seven Forums although I'm grateful that the PTBs (Powers That Be) have let me get away with it so far.

With that said, I may drop in once in a great while but, for the most part, I'm leaving for keeps. I have nothing against the people here, including management (most of you all have been totally wonderful) or Seven Forums. It's just time for me to move on, same as many (actually, most) of us have moved on to (shudder) Win 10. Even if MS had a change of heart and announced that it will stop the current practices I, and many others of us, find so unacceptable (polite term), I can no longer trust MS. Period.

Goodbye and good luck to all of you, no matter how you decide to proceed after EOL. It was a good run and I'm going to miss it and you all..

Good-bye Jeannie. It's been nice knowing you.

torchwood said:

Oh IM SURE you'll be back sooner than you think, as you'll likely be running a virtual W7 inside whichever linux you choose.

lots of luck


Roy

That is SO not going to happen! I'm through with MS. Period (thanks for the good wishes, though). The only two Windows programs I haven't been able to replace with ones in Linux to accomplish the same things are the professional music engraving program I haven't used since the Crash of '08 and the program needed to set the settings and program the macro keys on my Logitech 510s keyboards (I'll just junk or give away the keyboards, replace them with ones that take up less room on my desk, and find another way to keep and access macros). Curiously enough, I was able to find a Linux program to pair up my Logitech mice with their Unifying Receiver). I'll probably have to replace my Bother (sic) label maker with an equivalent standalone.

I dropped in this morning to see how many eulogies there were for Win 7's funeral and was surprised to see Golden and, especially, Kari had come back to groundlessly taunt those who refuse to downgrade to Win 10. Things must be getting pretty boing for them on Ten Forums to want to come back here (or they just have a mean streak). Pity. Seven forums became a nicer place when they and their ilk left Seven Forums.

Well, I'm happy to announce I have yet to see anything in the news about the world coming to a end due to Win 7's EOL.

Keep on trucking, you all, no matter how you decide to proceed now that Win 7 is officially "dead".

Hi,
There's always ocn.


Nothing dead about 7 except on your end and eol

I'll still be using it primarily for quite some time to come.


Even linux needs a firewall so now does win-7.