I'm interested in your remark about Windows 8. I bought a laptop with Windows 8 for around $500 a couple of years ago, and took off on a trip with it. I could not get it to work. I'd get stuck somewhere within it's bowels and couldn't find the goddamned things which come out of the sides. Or if I did find them, they led me into another ad for something.

I couldn't get a DVD to play. I bought an add-on from Microsoft and they still wouldn't play. Windows 8 turned a good laptop into junk as far as I'm concerned. The Chromebook someone gave me doesn't have that problem.

Now I'm thinking about a new desktop. They all seem to come with Windows 10. I just simply won't do that. No sense having a desktop sitting over with the laptop, unused and despised.

And it does occur to me that there are probably millions of computers out there with Windows 8 which are performing well for the owners. Which is a grim statement about me.