From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 11/13/25 4:52 PM, Paul wrote:   
   > On Thu, 11/13/2025 1:02 PM, yossarian wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:10:55 +0100   
   >> Halv Skjaldson  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> My LMDE 5 is running and running and running, why should i change it?   
   >>> Telling me something about 457 days of EOL now. What will happen?   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm too lazy and too old to upgrade. I like to take Elsie with me to the   
   >>> last journey. What actually could happen not upgrading?   
   >>   
   >> Probably nothing, even on windows I didn't have problem. I used win7   
   >> two years after EOL and never have virus software. I came here   
   >> straight from them.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I look at it this way. Halv was clever enough to figure out   
   > how to post to USENET. That means Halv is smart enough to   
   > do a MintUpgrade :-)   
   >   
   > No matter what OS you use, if you know how to make backups,   
   > even dangerous experiments can be tried. You then restore   
   > from backup, if something bad happens.   
   >   
   > I have backups in case of storage device failures.   
   > And once I figure out how to do that, I can also   
   > use backups for "safety backups" before a MintUpgrade.   
   >   
   >     Paul   
   >   
   >   
   I tried out several different ways to do a virtual machine.  VMware, Virtual   
   Box, etc.   
   Each time I did a full backup so I could restore back to square one without   
   any residue.   
   It's a godsend.   
      
      
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