On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 18:04:44 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
To people who can just about manage to use outdated software on XP, it's probably a big deal to switch to Linux.
That doesn't have anything to do with the OS. It's a mentality problem.
And is that outdated version of Quickbooks available to run under Linux?
There's GnuCash, but I wouldn't know all the details, I don't use either. What I do know is there are alternatives except for very specialized software. It comes down to willingness to explore and/or switch.
You are living in a different world,
You keep repeating this as if no one in this NG understands what you're saying. Respectfully, I'll say that you are wrong. I know all too well what it is to not have access to the latest greatest hardware or money to buy that new slick hoptoshop or whatever. Not to mention not having an affordable and stable Internet connection. I hope I don't need to go down the chain to more meaningful problems.
You're being dismissive just because people most of which you can safely assume to be younger than you disagree with you.
I'll repeat myself just to clarify: even if it so happened that XP continued its life, in the near future you won't be finding any software that would run on it. At least not proprietary software. Outdated hardware is not the only issue here.
