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Made the commitment to give Linux a serious try early January. Haven't booted Windows since until yesterday when I had to do something that I don't have on Linux. Absolutely hated the whole experience. It made me feel kinda like a duck out of water, like I really didn't know what I was doing. Yikes! Now I have even bought an iMac. Actually it is a birthday present for the wife but I get to use it some.
 
What version of Windoze? I get used to one OS and they change it. Duck out of water is about right.
Which is why I drew a line and no more new OS from MicroSlime.
I can find anything I want on this OS...but you get a couple of versions newer, and nothing makes sense. Get the last one before the latest, and "you do not have permission", even though I do, to look at specific files...then I find out later there IS no file...the entry is there for legacy systems to link through...and what in the heck is "libraries"? Photo programs usability dies in MS OS several (3 or 4) OS ago. Now if you even try, you have to remember the "flag" key to get out, and what do you do if your keyboard doesn't have a "flag" key?
 
What email program do you use in Linux? I hate Thunderbird the defalt program and the system seems to fight most others. PJ
 
I had been on Windows 10 for quite a while after switching from 7. It was all right except for all those things you mentioned. I did lose a couple of old programs in the switch but there were two things I really hated. One was having to give up Outlook Express for Live Mail and the other was the way they totally screwed up File Explorer.

Paul, I installed Linux Mint and it came with Thunderbird. I'm pretty satisfied with it and haven't looked for options. At least it works better than Windows Live Mail. I am far from a Linux expert but I already feel like I understand and can deal with it much better than I ever did Windows.

Oh, the Mac was supposed to come today but it actually got here yesterday on her actual birthday. :arms::ba-dump:
 
I have Thunderbird and consider it (for me) to be bulky and clumsy.....and difficult.
If you are an old Windows user...look at OE Classic. Supposed to work on any OS.
I have it....looks and works on my XP-8 machine just like the original does on my XP machines.
 
For what it's worth ...

For over ten years I've used web based email. Messages, archives, groups, contacts, etc. are available from any smartphone, desktop, laptop, etc. anywhere I "log in".

Fighting with "what email system should I use on my computer" back in the 1990s early 2000s was total frustration. Including - migrating from system to another.

TM
 
I started out with a DOS machine where everything had to be typed in by hand, black and sometimes blue screen, Windows 3.1 wasn't out yet, but when it came out I was amazed with how easy it made everything. It initually came on 5 inch floppies and then 3.5s. I remember one word processing program I had, had over 200 separate commands that had to be typed in also! I had a sheet by the computer to help me with all the commands on it. Secretary s were the only ones I knew who could remember how to get around in it as they worked it every day. I don't even remember the name of it. DOS today is a total mystery to me, I forgot everything I ever knew about it and happy to do so! :highly_amused: PJ
 
WordStar!

View attachment 47481

First "word processor" I ever used. First in cp/m, then in DOS, then to Windows.

jeez - do I feel old ...
 
NutmegCT said:
jeez - do I feel old ...
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That's because you ARE old....just like me. Try to talk this stuff to the millennials, and you will get a blank stare. Just before their attention shoots back to their handheld device and faceplant.
Try sticking an old dial rotary phone in front of one sometime.
 
I well remember WordStar and cp/m. That was quite the setup in its day, 8 bit processors and all. We were later the first seller of Word Perfect in Oklahoma, before it was even ported to PCs. Their company name was originally SSI, Satellite Software International. Things have definitely changed.
 
WordStar! ugh. The other was Word Perfect. At the intro of the 286 we adopted DPaint-III, & IV and Adobe Pagemaker. CorelDraw came on eleven 5.5" disks. WinBlows 3.11..

This box I'm on now is Linux CEntOS, v5-1. Just shoved v7.1 on a quad-core AMD machine and am configuring it as a "new" server for us. Adobe has given Mozilla/Firefox Shockwave Flash a kick to the curb as well, so the "new" box got Chrome installed on it as a browser.

E-mail? I use T-bird on Linux and/or the WinBlows boxes Herself uses for graphics and suchlike. Adobe and Corel have given up any Linux ported warez, so I'm forced to work with Micro$hite on those.

Started out using Pine for email, on a DOS 2.2 IBM "laptop" 8088. What a LUMP that was. ISTR a 1,440 modem in it. I thought it was hot stuff back then. sheesh. Messed with Epson 8088 engined things and Trash 80's.

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Ah, yes. Rat-Shack Trash-80's. Appropriately named.
 
And I'm still running TRS-DOS on my M102 laptop.

(told ya I was old ...)
 
NutmegCT said:
WordStar!

View attachment 47481

First "word processor" I ever used. First in cp/m, then in DOS, then to Windows.

jeez - do I feel old ...
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Tom, I think that's the word processing program I used, couldn't remember the name of it. Come a long way since then :encouragement:. PJ
 
Take a look at the screen copy, where it says Cursor Movement.

Cursor up - CTRL E
Cursor down - CTRL X
Cursor right - CTRL D
Cursor left - CTRL S

That's how you moved from letter to letter, (or CTRL A or CTRL F for word to word). Those four letters on the keyboard - E S D X - form a "star". And thus ... Word Star!

 
PAUL161 said:
Tom, I think that's the word processing program I used, couldn't remember the name of it. Come a long way since then :encouragement:. PJ
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Wordstar is definitely what I used for my first couple of assignments as a Commissioned officer in the early 80's. I remember my first "office computer" had a black screen with ugly green characters.
 
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