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MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Oct 29, 2016

Think It Will Be Possible To Survive 6-8 Years On Windows 7?

Or is there alarming tidbits and evidence that subsciption services are going to force non Windows 10 into oblivion? When I head south I do not want to purchase a Latin American laptop with different ...
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road-runner
Explorer III
Oct 29, 2016
Hard to tell the future. I've got 2 laptops still surviving fine on XP, yet I can see the PC cartel doing something to push everybody onto annual subscription windows. If you don't need to run windows-only apps, consider Linux. For web browsing, email, office apps, and numerous other things, operating it is pretty similar to windows. I guess Ubuntu is the most widely used flavor. I use Linux Mint Cinnamon, which IMO has a better UI.

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