Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Atreyu
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Nov 02 2022 13:52:00

-=> Atreyu wrote to Gamgee <=-

 At> On 02 Nov 22  11:29:00, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

 G> Modern Linux is surprisingly easy to use right out of the box.  Even a
 G> bash skillset is not really a requirement for most.  If you're not
 G> locked in to using specific Windows software for home, you likely could
 G> switch over without too much hassle.

 At> My main computer at home is a Falcon trading station with six
 At> monitors. I inherited this from a client who retired from
 At> finance. I use it whenever I work from home. I'm not really
 At> locked into Windows-specific stuff but all my work revolves
 At> around the cult that is MS-Office. Outlook, Excel, Teams...  I
 At> can't just replace those with alternatives. At least not easily.
 At> The Excel work for one job involves a freaking mess of macros and
 At> VBA.

Yes, I have heard that Office-related stuff comes pretty close to 
locking in to Windows.  The opensource/Linux alternatives can have 
problems with complicated documents.

 G> Your BBS stuff is another matter, for sure.  Are you running all of that
 G> on bare-metal DOS hardware, or on a 32-bit Windows machine?  I think
 G> it's uber-cool that you run DOS stuff, actually.

 At> Professor Hud doesn't think so. ;)

Not too many (any?) folks care much about what that troll thinks... ;-)

 At> Yes my BBS is all in 32-bit Windows XP on Vmware EXSI. Windows
 At> being nothing more than a glorified multitasker for all the DOS
 At> stuff.

 At> It made sense to move to Vmware since I manage that stuff at work
 At> and home for other things. There was no real need to run
 At> bare-metal anymore so the beatup IBM R51 that gave many good
 At> years of uptime was retired after 15~20+ years.

 At> The board must run on Windows XP and nothing higher because I'm
 At> 100% convinced there is a bug in NTVDM in higher versions where
 At> Microsoft did something that would crash DOS sessions with
 At> bizarre problems. I gave up and left it on XP.

Excellent.  Makes good sense to me.  I'm sure the hand-wringers let you 
know how much of a "security risk" it is to run an XP box...  LOL

Keep on rockin'.


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