Subj : Re: Move to 64bit os and door
To   : Utopian Galt
From : Accession
Date : Sun Nov 16 2025 07:04 am

Hey Utopian Galt!

On Fri, Nov 15 2025 17:39:09 -0600, you wrote:

> Not all of us are technologically adept, thats what keeps us slaves
> to the windows plantation.

It's not necessarily about being technologically adept. You don't need 
any more tech know-how to do anything on some of these Linux 
distributions these days than you do Windows.

The issue is more than likely that you have been so used to running 
Windows over the course of 3-4 decades now, whereas you may have never 
once took the time to even look at Linux. So it's probably more about 
the fear of leaving your own comfort zone, than it is being some kind of 
'Linux technogeek', or whatever you want to /think/ you need to be.

By all means, if you like Windows, stick with it. If you don't want to 
be a "slave to the Windows plantation," use something like Virtualbox 
and install and tinker with a Linux distro where you can't do any harm 
to any of your cherished data. If you break something in said VM, you 
can just delete it, create a new one, and start over.

Just /using/ it is how you learn it. Just like you did with Windows all 
that time ago. Even when a new version of Windows comes out, you have to 
use it, and over time you figure out how all the new stuff works. Linux 
is the exact same thing.

Regards,
Nick

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