From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:16:29 -0500, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
      
   > We all love to see the rising interest in installing Linux as a novelty,   
   > but the reality is that the biggest beneficiary of the rejection of   
   > Win11 is still Win10.   
      
   There will be some hard choices. Someone on a Windows ng is bitching   
   because TurboTax won't install on Win10. It's not going to fly on Linux   
   either so what to do?   
      
   There will be more and more things that won't install or update on Win10.   
   They probably would work fine but software companies aren't going to test   
   new releases on an unsupported OS so they'll do a version check and bail.   
      
   How many will take the leap into the great unknown versus biting the   
   bullet and buying a new laptop? The timing sort of sucks as AI sucks up   
   every last bit of RAM.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)