XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: me@privacy.invalid   
      
   On 30 Oct 2025 15:22:57 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
      
   > s|b wrote:   
      
   8< snip - switching to Linux >8   
   > > The main thing that hold me back is the loss of the freeware that I use   
   > > on W11. The only paid software I have is W11, Dashcam Viewer and Forté   
   > > Agent and I definitely don't want to loose that. I know it runs under   
   > > Wine (sort of), but it doesn't support SSL, so I would have to work with   
   > > something like stunnel.   
      
   >   Exactly! "It's the apps, stupid!" No point changing to a 'better' OS   
   > if it can't run your software.   
   >   
   >   That's why I, a Unix/UNIX veteran, still use Windows. For historical   
   > (hysterical?) reasons, I'm using Windows.  Way, way too much effort to   
   > switch to a 'better' OS. And *why*? To *lose* functionality/   
   > compatibility? Yeah right!   
      
   Can I ask how you run Windows? Is that some sort of VM or perhaps on   
   other hardware?   
      
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   s|b   
      
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