ergocentric wrote:Sid Sideslip wrote:using eePe and the simulator on Win XP Pro
XP is no longer supported by microsloth, and I just got tired of a new antivirus update every fifteen minutes. I run Ubuntu.
I do run XP on my daughter's computer for access to Google Sketchup, Ashlar Vellum Graphite, and my old flight sim.
Win XP service pack 3 is still supported by MS so far as security updates go, also I don't notice upgrades to anti-virus, as AVG does it in the background. For mail I either use Yahoo or Thunderbird and I use Firefox for browsing (with noscript and adblock-plus, together with some other security related add ons).
Linux is all very well, but it comes with its own set of annoyances and of course, if you are into online computer gaming, it's pretty much useless. I have a pretty powerful gaming rig which would be wasted on Ubuntu.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, and I wouldn't touch an Apple product with a ten foot pole, but I'll probably upgrade to Win 7 64 bit soon anyway.