Paul, I just bought a new computer, low to mid range Lenovo and like
everything else it has Windows 10 on it. OMG what a total piece of
crap O/S, I cannot even start to imagine what the developers were
thinking. What would you recommend for a Linux O/S, web browser and
mail program ? It irks me to no end that I have to buy a piece of
crap like 10 just to throw it away.

John Rogi

Linux comes with FireFox and ThunderBird. I like the "Mate"
distribution but more
programs will run on Ubuntu. I think there is something like 50,000 free programs
for Linux. Open Shot is a good video editor and Gimp is like photo shop. For music there
is Banshe and VLC. I have been running Linux for 20 years. Upgrades are free.


I have all the stuff from the news letter for the past 19 years. It is about
500 gig. When I die anybody taking over the newsletter better be familiar
with Thunderbird. In the beginning  it was Netscape but all files are compatible
with Thunderbird. All thousands of messages and photos. The command line search
engine finds a key word in 3 terra-bytes in less than 2 seconds.
The Gui search engine
is a bit slower.


Paul Lamar

Thanks Paul,
Why the preference for "Mate" ?
I don't do any brainiac stuff like you, just simple emails, paying bills, surfing the Web and watching vids. Seems like MS just wants to sell aps and do social media.

John Rogi

I just like the look and feel of Mate. There are at least half
a dozen gui's made for Linux and Apple and Mate are just two.
People with Apples don't realize they are just using Linux.
In many cases the aps are geared to the Gui. Especially Apple.

Paul Lamar


Have ran Windows 10 for close to one year, and I agree with you on "piece-of-crap". Had to reinstall because it "ate" many of my programs. And just a few minutes ago the task bar went from the bottom to the top of the screen on it's own, have no idea what happened?

Good luck......
Norm Parmley

I think MicroShit is trying to combine OS's so It can get some of the cell
phone market back from Apple and Android. Themselves versions
of Linux. A terminal ap for your cell phone looks just like the Linux
command line.

I think Ubuntu has a version that will install on your cell phone
replacing android and may be Apple.

Paul Lamar

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