I got my first PC way back in 1988. I only upgraded to Windows, in the form of 98se, in 2005 and it took a good year for me to stop screaming "Just give me a DOS prompt, you b*****d!" at it.
I got a Vista-equipped lap-top in 2010 and a few with XP joined it in the following years. I've never owned one with Windows 7, though have occasionally used other people's and fixed a couple.
I got a 'new' lap-top in 2019 which had Windows 10 on and I stuck that for about two hours before replacing it with Debian Linux, which the XP ones had gradually been changed over to.
Apart from the first one all my computers have been land-fill refugees and sorting out their problems, or at least trying to, has been a good way of learning things. It does mean that my knowledge is patchy in that I know some quite advanced stuff but not some of the basics.
These dabblings have confirmed what I've always thought: stick with the oldest software that does what you want it to.
I got a Vista-equipped lap-top in 2010 and a few with XP joined it in the following years. I've never owned one with Windows 7, though have occasionally used other people's and fixed a couple.
I got a 'new' lap-top in 2019 which had Windows 10 on and I stuck that for about two hours before replacing it with Debian Linux, which the XP ones had gradually been changed over to.
Apart from the first one all my computers have been land-fill refugees and sorting out their problems, or at least trying to, has been a good way of learning things. It does mean that my knowledge is patchy in that I know some quite advanced stuff but not some of the basics.
These dabblings have confirmed what I've always thought: stick with the oldest software that does what you want it to.
