Subj : Re: Move to 64bit os and door
To   : All
From : Bucko
Date : Sun Nov 16 2025 08:48:22

On 16 Nov 2025, Accession said the following...
 Ac> 
 Ac> It's not necessarily about being technologically adept. You don't need 
 Ac> any more tech know-how to do anything on some of these Linux 
 Ac> distributions these days than you do Windows.
 Ac> 
 Ac> The issue is more than likely that you have been so used to running 
 Ac> Windows over the course of 3-4 decades now, whereas you may have never 
 Ac> once took the time to even look at Linux. So it's probably more about 
 Ac> the fear of leaving your own comfort zone, than it is being some kind of 
 Ac> 'Linux technogeek', or whatever you want to /think/ you need to be.
 Ac> 

Nick is completely right. I ran under Windows for 3 decades, starting out at Win 3.11 for Workgroups and moving through all versions. About 4 years ago I played with running a BBS in Ubuntu, and after the learning curve of using Terminal to do the basic things. I never turned back, I now only have 2 WIndows VM's running, 1 to run my Amiga Emulation since I haven't yet been able to get a Amiga Emulator as full featured and up to date as WinUAE (Although this will be changing with WinBoat) and a Win 10 32 bit to run my Door Server, although this too will more than likely change when I finally spend some time learning DosEmu.. Fire up a VM of Mint (closest to Windows in my opinion) and play with it, in my case moving to Debian made me want to use my computers again..


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