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Vivaldi's built-in ad blocker. Edit - Vivaldi thing. FF + UBO working...

Unable to read because I choose to use an ad blocker. Archive copy at https://archive.is/dl6oF

Also a thread here.

Likewise, new android user and it's far easier than OSM in my Vivaldi browser.

I archived.is'd it. https://archive.is/GFCIY

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Then there's her resignation honours list...

She probably gained an endless supply of pillows.

I class myself as having similar experience to your friend having used Power Basic and Turbo Pascal mainly under DOS. I was able to use tkinter to produce some simple gui front-ends to produce dialogue boxes, process data and feed it to GnuPlot.

Is it people that want to switch away from Windows or switch to Linux?

In my case it was the former, having spent a lot of time on FreeBSD so in 2007 I bought a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.3. This gave me most of what I wanted and when I needed something Windows (XP) specific I installed a VM running under Parallels, then Virtual Box. I was able to run most of the open source software at that time such as Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird in preference to the Apple supplied apps.

I hate it when someone sends me a PDF form and tells me I can complete it using Acrobat (or whatever it's called this week). Last one I successfully completed with the Firefox PDF ed.