All good advice, thanks! It's daunting as 'an old' to make a switch like this. I've gone from RSTS/E to TRS-80s to CP/M to MS-DOS to Desqview/Windows and pretty

All good advice, thanks! It's daunting as 'an old' to make a switch like this. I've gone from RSTS/E to TRS-80s to CP/M to MS-DOS to Desqview/Windows and pretty much stuck with Windows since then. It's never been so much about it being a 'preference', it's just the path on which I landed. Now that I am faced with paying (again) for an operating system which, in turn, considers me to be a product to be harvested and monetized, I guess I've had enough.