Finally moving my essentials from the ancient OSX 10.6.8 machine to the Windows laptop.
There are solid reasons to keep the 10.6.8 machine as is, but just as solid reasons to stop using it to get on the internet.
The Windows laptop will soon be migrating to Win10. Ick. Don't wanna.
But support is going away for Win7 and Win10 is the least worst supported option unless I wanna go all insane and run Linux. Because I still have a substantial investment in iTunes, Linux is presently not an option.
Soon, though, it will be worth it to strip the DRM from the iTunes files so that I can play the products I have paid for without using the soon to be going away iTunes software.
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Hey Angus;
ReplyDeleteMan it killed me when Microsoft killed off all support for XP, I loved that platform, it never crashed, never gave me any trouble just tooled on in the background, no matter what software I loaded on it, it cheerfully ran it. I had my XP over 12 years and in computer time, That is an eternity..LOL
For me it is Linux. Never Windows. MacOS would be preferable to Windows, but I'm not willing to pay Apple's hardware prices.
ReplyDeleteI quote, "Because I still have a substantial investment in iTunes, Linux is presently not an option."
DeleteNever mind that the Quicken equivalents are not ready for prime time.
Linux is, still, the mechanical fuel injection, points distributor OS. When it's running great, it's as good as anything; but you have to enjoy constantly fiddling with it. It also fails HARD at the "OK, I've managed to break something, let's look up how to fix it," and get an explanation that someone who is NOT a programmer can understand.
You're a programmer, are you not?
BUT! It gets better and better and easier and easier every year.
Soon... Perhaps very soon.
I at least used to be a programmer. Not so sure about that anymore. Being over 50 in IT means basically a cold, dead career. I guess I still am for the time being, but who knows. Anyway, I never made an investment in iTunes so I'm not sure what the options are for breaking that format and converting the music to something ubiquitous like mp3. There is probably a way to do that I'd guess but I'm too lazy to google it. Being penniless I have little use for something like Quicken, but I've heard their online product works fairly well. I know that one thing that used to be an obstacle for people, that being federal tax return software, is possible to do online now in a platform agnostic way. Even when you don't have two nickles to rub together the f-ing government still wants their 1/3 of what little subsistence a guy can scratch out so they can waste it on the idle and useless while short changing the folks who actually earned it (you know who you are). But I'm not bitter or anything.
DeleteIt's not the music that's the investment. It's the movies and tv shows.
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