Let me rephrase that: How come you use such an old OS?
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Like I said, I prefer older versions. Less bloat, for one thing. Also, all I use it for is casual web surfing. Since I practice safe browsing habits, and have ESM enabled, it’s all I need.
The other reason is, I just like retro things. I’m old school. My favorite Windows is probably Vista, although Seven is a close second. But I use Ten for my music composition. Eleven, yikes…I hope I never need to upgrade to that!
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I wish I didn’t have to use W11 for work. It’s very frustrating to use. It’s always nice to come back to Linux from Windows because permissions on Windows can be a mess sometimes. I never really understood why, even as an administrator, I can’t open some system areas of the file system
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Permissions are really weird if you have both W7 and W10 on the same machine. Apparently they have different file systems.
I was using W7 until about 6 months ago for my music composition. But I found that some of my software wasn’t working right, so reluctantly upgraded to W10. Things were fine until I started opening my W7 projects on W10. Permission denied!
And every time I booted up W10, it tried to “fix” the “errors” on W7. If I booted W7, it tried to fix the errors on W10. Totally crazy. What were they thinking?
I had to go back to W7 for awhile, until I figured out how to get permission to open my own files. I also learned that you shouldn’t share files between W7 and W10. Don’t even have them on the same computer.
This kind of thing doesn’t happen on Linux.
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One more point re: why run such an old system like Ubuntu 18: Both machines I have U18 on are quite old. one is a HP Elite 8300, a refurbished enterprise computer. The other is an old Gateway, which originally had an Athlon II, that I rebuilt, and it’s now a Phenom II, with 8GB ram. Also a new mobo and power supply. So basically, a “new” computer, or more precisely, a computer with old but brand new parts. (Hey, at least I kept it out of the landfill). Both could run newer Linux systems easily, but they are so fast and smooth on U18 that as long as it’s still supported, why not?
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When the release for version ${latest} LTS is published, I then usually migrate from ${latest}-4 LTS to ${latest}-2 LTS, thereby leaving me 1 full LTS release behind. That way, I get the rock-solid stability of the usual ${latest}.5-2 LTS.
I’ve had some personal crises to deal with, so I am currently holding at UbuntuMATE 22.04.5 LTS, but with the following kernel:
6.8.0-45-generic #45~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Sep 11 15:25:05 UTC
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