I certainly won't be dumping my perfectly satisfactory W10 machines for new equivalents with the added pleasurable experience of migrating all of my software over to all six them. At 80 years of age, I may not live long enough to complete the job (I started with a a Tandy model I running from a cassette late century, and I've wasted a lot of my lifetime dabbling with most of the Microsoft OS's that came along). Indeed two of these machines are Lenovo laptops dedicated to amateur radio stuff and would qualify for the migration, but I'm not prepared to risk incompatibility issues. Not that I back away from a challenge. About two years ago I started running Raspberry pi devices for ADSB reception and on-feeding. This can be fun, but I've managed to get successful results from all 4 of them.
Finally, I must admit that I've dabbled in various Linux versions over the past fifteen years or so and while almost all of them worked as advertised, they were just too 'different' to be of any real use. However recently I came by an unwanted, but very nice Toshiba laptop (Windows Vista - yuk!) as a freebie, for just for laughs, I bought an inexpensive ssdrive and installed Linux Mint. The result was most impressive! It was almost intuitive in its operation, and scored five stars with an 'Office' suite which is very similar to the MS version which we have come to know. On that basis, I would cautiously recommend it to anyone of an adventurous spirit and who needs only the basics which the MS alternative offers.
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