Is anyone still using Windows 7?

[ShadouFox]

In reply to dg1261:

Thanks very much. I'm OK for now. I have three sites, they all work.

If it gets to the point where 7 does not work, I'll do Linux, period, and I don't like Linux because it has all kinds of flaws which are probably welcomed by people with PhD's in Digital Magic, but for normal people, it's a minefield. It's like having to learn DOS, in German. I'm happy to read this forum, with all its valuable information.

K\ve used a lot of Linuxes over the years: Mandrake, Gentoo, CRUX, Redhat, Debian, Puppy, Evil Entity, Zenwalk. I'll not try to lid you into believing Linux is perfect. It isn't. My advise is to avoid Debian and its derivatives (i.e. N00buntu) like the plague. The repositories are lousy with broken packages. This is why I've been using Slackware ever since Ought Six or so. You can get Slackpacks for installation, or download the programs in *.rpm format and convert to *.tgz package with rpm2tgz, then install as usual.

That's what I used to install Enlightenment on Slackware 15.0 and it worked just fine, and Enlightenment is a big program with ESSSSS-loads of dependencies. (I've installed from source and it ain't no fun) You can also install from source "tarballs". I've seen a very few that didn't compile. (dvdauthor was one due to a missing #iclude that led to undefined variables. An easy fix.)

Slackware is a bit geekier than usual: the installer is an Ncurses menu driven program, but not at all difficult to navigate. It's not as geeky as it used to be, and I haven\t had to hack config files in 15 years. Everything just works: the X display and networking are all set up for you and just work out of the box.