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@Alice Are you going to show us the worst photo, too?

@arcadia One fear is droves of excessed It workers, plus new grads who aren't getting jobs, descending to ransomware, identity theft, and other "I'll get mine" behavior in response to the executive-level "who needs people" decisions.

@Thumper1964 "Gogd" and "should" don't look as though they rhymed, but English orthography has little rhyme. But why "like" rather than "as"?
I do remember the jingle using "Winston" and "tastes," rather than the plural.

@floofpaldi One sentence may be about right. Two pages may be close to useless.

@chad . . . having come into the office with a whole lot of plaque.

@kostiya Thank you for your kind suggestions. Neither Wine nor Codeweaver/crossOver seems to rate recent versions of WP as very compatible, so i reckon I will go with the dual OS and disable Windows internet access..

@kostiya Thank you. If I understand you correctly, there is no way to avoid windows access to the internet, or there wouldn't be an issue of microsoft updating/modifying anything. Do I understand correctly?

#OperatingSystems #Linux #Partitions I'm speculating about replacing this fading computer with a machine running both windows and linux. I'd use linux for the internet while i continue to learn its ways. I'd use windows as a platform to run Word Perfect (not Ford Prefect), and for other familiar programs. Visio, even a standalone MSWord, so I don't have to export .docs from LibreOffice or Word Perfect and hear, "Just send it in; we'll straighten out the formatting." I want to be more everyday-functional than I can if I rely on Libre Office, while I'm stumblingly learning its ways.
I'm familiar with lots of Word Perfect shortcuts, whereas all too often I have to figure out what LibreOffice function or shortcut I've turned on, and how to undo what it's created. Everything has a learning curve.
What I'm not clear about is whether I can keep Windows on my machine but disconnected from the internet, while Linux on the same machine talks to the world.
Have done what I'm contemplating? How did it work? What pitfalls do you see?