I’ve usually found ways to use computers I’d otherwise retire, rather than just trashing them if I couldn’t find someone else who wanted ’em. Example: my nonagenarian mom gave up her computer a while back, and, after being stuck in Lovely Daughter’s possession for a couple of months, it then sat in my car for a few more. I’ve not found anyone who wants it, yet, so I’ve decided to scrub the drive (including the WinXP Pro that’s on it, of course) and install ReactOS for a play machine. I’ve used earlier iterations of ReactOS on some VMs and appreciated its look and feel that evokes WIn 2K Pro a bit more than WinXP, and found that it ran Windows software better than WINE does on ‘nix machines. *shrugs* If I find someone who needs an XP-compatible machine, ReactOS might just suit ’em. Until then, it’ll sit in the back room with some spare hard drives slapped into it for network access. Just another storage/play box, I suppose. . .
Oh, why ReactOS? I just don’t need another ‘nix box, and the computer isn’t really suitable for Win7/8, so. . .
I did not see a recent post to add this to, so I thought I’d mention it here.
The guys who made Opera way back when started a new browser now that Opera has jumped the shark. It’s called Vivaldi, and they are about to go into Technical Preview 2.
https://vivaldi.com/
I do not know if the bookmark organization you have come to rely upon will be included, but if anyone can replicate the system, it would be the original team that wrote Opera.
Yeh, I’ve seen Vivaldi. It’s pretty rough-edged, right now, and no big improvement, as far as I can see, over the new “Chopera” (Opera skinned over a Chrome rendering engine). One small thing it does that “Chopera” still barely does–finally! after more than a year!–is import bookmarks. Neither allow decent organization of imported bookmarks, and both jumble them up badly, but still better than “Chopera” started out.
I rate Vivaldi as a third-rate startup, as it looks so far. I still use the venerable, ever more aged, Opera 12.17 as my primary browser, because it’s so much more capable and flexible than anything else out there.
Interesting to hear your take on the product. I’d just found out about it and was downloading the package as I wrote my initial comment.
Perhaps it’s a hopeless optimistic streak that it may turn out to be a useful replacement. I’ve been dragged to Chrome for most everything now, though I wish it were not so.