Part of the reason I've been quiet in the last few weeks is that I've abandoned #Windows again!

I had moved to #LinuxMint 17 around 2015 and later upgraded to 19 after I'd managed to trash a new upgraded #Win10 machine. (My fault! I played - badly - with the only admin user account which made the machine inaccessible.)

When I bought an "Amazon Refurbished" #Dell Optiplex 7010 box I returned to Windows and got used to Win10. I'd paid for Windows so thought I ought not waste my money. In the UK, at least, MS allows to to carry on getting security updates for free, but time is running out on that offer, I believe, and my Optiplex is not upgradable to #Win11.

I'm still having to re-learn a few things but, other than Windows itself, the last Microsoft product I used was Office2000, Everything since then has been open source and available on Linux, so it's been pretty painless.