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   Hey Nancy!   
      
    NB> Richard has one laptop with Win10 installed   
      
   I feel his pain.  Out here in the boonies the closest I have gotten to that is   
   a Chromebook.  I have probably seen it on laptops in stores but never touched   
   it myself.  My plan is to keep it that way.  I saw on a news article that MS   
   plans to release a Chromebook type OS in the near future which confirms to me   
   the adverse reaction I had when I did play with a Chromebook.  I did manage to   
   get it to connect to the access point I have running on the raspberry pi but   
   the range isn't all that great so I seriously doubt that has a future in this   
   neck of the woods.   
      
    NB> Still not what I'd want for my own computer   
      
   Understood.  For me the keyboard was the deal breaker.  I'd have to remap some   
   of the keys to get console switching to work ... if indeed I could customize a   
   bootable linux for it to start with.  The only things in it's favour - the   
   Chromebook that reared it's ugly head here - was the cpu and 8G of ram but   
   that is readily duplicated in other similar devices.   
      
    NB> And linux seems to work well across the board...   
      
   It most certainly can.  Even fidonet.  :-)   
      
    NB> any more than I am of watching TV   
      
   Amen.  Nothing to see there that is for sure.   
      
    NB> And it seems linux works very well for you...   
      
   No doubt about it and has so since near the beginning mostly due to gcc and   
   friends which was my initial attraction.  Downloadable kernel source has kept   
   me a true believer.  Much fun has been had experimenting with oddball hardware   
   over the years such as making bootable compactflash disks just before the turn   
   of the century.  That is what led me to where I am today although I haven't   
   seen or used a compactflash disk since.  However on this particular machine I   
   am booting up a microSD card which is basically the same thing and the OS did   
   evolve from the compactflash idea from way back when.  "Flash ttylinux of the   
   21st Century" came out of that idea circa 2001-ish.  :-)   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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