>>>There are two things from M$ I still use: skype and fox (on linux, both). And there's very little use I find for skype now, just to stay in touch with the two out-of-town daughters, and perhaps bi-weekly to say hi to the old gang from the last gig.
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>Regarding the latter on Linux- how goes it?

Mostly everything works, except some quirks:
- the ctrl-backspace somehow got translated to ctrl+g. Defined a macro to put it back.
- when coding, anything that ends a word and may trigger some intellisense action may as well switch focus to the next window, as if ctrl+F1 was pressed. It's largely annoying
- the help doesn't work because it doesn't display pages - the IE emulator wine uses treats it as foreign content, and the properties dialog on the chm file doesn't have the checkbox to make it domestic
- browser object doesn't work, haven't really tried to understand why. IE is emulated under wine, and the emulation somehow doesn't do COM, though it should as per the specs. There's probably something I should install, but I'm getting around without it. Though I almost made my own version of GoFish which wouldn't use it, but rather a simple editbox.
- haven't tried to do ODBC yet, my pet projects use dbfs. Boy, how much I forgot about handling those... specially dbc stuff. Ages.
- fun fact: windows within _screen will have close box etc as if in windowses; the desktop windows will use host OS widgets - so the same form had closebox on the right while I kept it in _screen, now it has it on the left.
- since I went for the unstable build 19.10, a few things are getting hosed up, which didn't happen in the stable 18.04. So I'm getting to reboot from time to time, perhaps twice a week, which sometimes affects fox (i.e. it can get hosed if I don't look for symptoms, usually things getting slow or some things not responding. If I quit all my instances of fox and specially Waterfox (the browser, also somewhat unstable, as it's unable to kill forever looped javascript on time), then everything's fine, just reload fox (I usually have 3 or 4 running for different stuff that I do) and move on.