Who knows what things will be like in 5 years time? I might be living on an idyllic deserted island
(or be six feet under), Linux might finally work "out of the box" (which one version I tried recently most certainly did not), or I may just stick with Win7. Despite all the scaremongering trotted out when XP support ended (Hi, Mixture), I haven't seen any reports to back that up yet. If it's a case of re-purposing one of my old XP laptops with Linux just for accessing the internet, and keeping W7 for all the other applications I'm familiar with, that's probably what I will do...