Subj : Re: Windows 11 Upgrade Pr
To   : Mike Dippel
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Thu Sep 11 2025 21:27:00

Mike Dippel wrote:
> -> So... yikes, NOT what I need in an OS, not even . But it was good to try
> -> and find that out!!

> Sorry to hear that.  I guess there is no perfect OS.  There are certainly some

Nope. Some better than others, depending what you need. Oh well, it's 
always worth trying, you never know when you'll hit one that does just 
what you want.

In this case I flung up my hands, went to Walmart and bought a $60 
android tablet. It's a decent 7" tablet for the price and looks like 
it'll be fine for the ONE THING that I need it to do. (The interface is 
certainly easier on the eyes than my Kindle Fire that there is no 
getting to "just right".)

> drawbacks if you have a bunch of Windows programs that will no longer run on
> your computer.  I found a way to upgrade Win 10 to 11 with no problems at all.
> If you can do this, it is certainly the best option since you don't lose your
> programs or files.

I have a whole houseful of computers. Ironically, the slowest and least 
competent (a mere netbook, 1.1GHz and 4GB RAM) is the only one that 
officially "supports" Win11 !!

The daily driver runs XP64. Also have as regulars Win11 (on an 
"unsupported" desktop), Fedora, PCLinuxOS, and MSDOS7. And occasionally 
a long list of others. Fireball has a whole stack of OSs each on its own 
hard disk.

Plus on XP64 I run Win8.1 in a VM, just to confuse onlookers. <g> 
Actually it has one job that XP64 can't do, but needs to access the same 
filesystem. So, VM.

But, you cry, outdated browsers! Supermium is current Chrome compiled 
for XP, and it has become my preferred browser even on modern Windows 
(uses about half as much RAM as Chrome, and is less annoying).

> My second computer is a Windows upgrade and runs perfectly.  The upgrade
> doesn't speed up the computer, but the best thing about it that it extends the
> OS to October 2029.

Given that I still run XP64 for everyday, you might guess I am not too 
concerned about EOL. I have been mildly croggled to see Win8.1 continue 
to receive security updates, most recently about two weeks back.

When I get around to installing Fireball's upgrade (faster CPU, more 
RAM) I might kick Fedora sideways and make Fireball do Win11, for the 
heavy graphics apps.
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