'Techophobes' with interest in TECH.

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I've messed around and built my own computers for nearly 30 years now and I like to keep up with that technology - within reason. I never buy the latest and greatest, I wait for six months and then it's second best and half the price. Same as the rest of you have mentioned, I tend to only upgrade when things die or it becomes obviously necessary.

I started playing with Linux 20 years ago, although it took a bit of getting used to I kept persevering because it was faster than windows, more reliable, and completely immune to viruses. For many years I ran both Windows and Linux on the same machine so the difference was very obvious.

These days motherboard manufacturers understand that if someone's building their own desktop then there's a greater chance that they're in to gaming and that they're not going to be installing Windows. Non Windows OS is an option in the bios, Windows relies quite heavily on bios carrying out some of it's functions, so if you're not running Windows your computer can run faster.

Great reasons for Linux and Open Office

I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly but Open Office fell by the wayside many years ago, it was superceded by Libre Office. Worth all of you trying, runs on Win, Mac and Linux and it's free.
https://www.libreoffice.org/
I never took to phones though, I have one because you really have to these days but it lives permanently plugged in to the back of the computer and it's very rarely that I'll take it with me when I go out.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I never took to phones though, I have one because you really have to these days but it lives permanently plugged in to the back of the computer and it's very rarely that I'll take it with me when I go out.

WHAT!!?? Out without a leash/tracking-device? ARE YOU NUTS??

 

[MildredHubble]

In the last couple of years I have warmed to smart phones a bit more and I like to know it's ready to go. I use it mostly for keeping up with this forum periodically throughout the day and when I have some sort of idea pop into my head for a project and I can instantly do some searching on the web.

It wasn't like I didn't use my phone before, but more that I didn't really think of it first when I wanted to browse the internet. Of course this phone I'm using has a large screen so I guess that made web browsing more comfortable.

The only thing I used to use my phone for other than that and the occasional text message was looking through eBay. Most of the time my phone just sat in my pocket or bag and I would forget to charge it for 3 days and find it on 6% battery life just when I did actually need it for something!