I started with openSUSE 9.1 some 20 years ago. I am a single user on a desktop box. Security is not an issue with me. Now I understand that SUSE needs to profit from selling its product, and selling to business requires solid security. But 16.0 has removed an essential piece of software that allows me to run my 16bit software. I worked on a solution but gave up in frustration. What has made openSUSE outstanding was the quality of assistance from our user group. I am truly sorry to leave.
So bad you have to go ):
In another matters, wow, 16 bit software, I’m curious about what’s that irreplaceable. I mean, you used it because no one has made a better or and equivalent one? I think it is the first time I heard about actual use of this kind of software, I’m very young too so it makes sense.
I have a second PC, Core2Duo, running OS/2 24/7 for running mainly Quattro Pro and Paradox for DOS in SVGA text mode: ATI GPU-specific SVGA 800x600 resolution 132col by 43row textmode. There’s no practical migration path I found from QPro anywhere that preserves the library of macros I use daily. Technically it’s not “OS/2”, but one of several steps in a branding and management chain, eComStation, leading to the current offering called ArcaOS that works on much newer hardware, though it’s still only 32bit.
Quattro Pro is part of the Wordperfect Office suite, and runs on Win 10 and 11, but $$$$$$.
Anyway, using macros is the surest way to have compatiblity problems when following new versions, but it cann’t be avoided all the time. And how many of the features you programmed in these macros are now standard in modern spreadsheets??
I can only guess how long you’ll be able to maintain such environment, but if I were you, I would bite the bullet, import your spreadsheets into let’s say Calc and see what you need to rewrite as macros. Might take some time, but you’ll certainly won’t be bored for the next period.
I investigated that Windows version when new. Yuck to the program, worse to using Windows for anything more than programming my Logitech Harmony remote, which when it died, eliminated my last remaining use for Windows.
It doesn’t matter. I need no new features from a spreadsheet, no need for updates. I use the macros I have without any material need to think. My fingers’ memory simply does what needs doing, without ever touching the trackball. The only shortcoming is the SMB1 roadblock, a much lesser evil than attempting a migration.
I am not interested in investing in learning any more new environments at age 74, unlikely payback would be worth the cost. I stay more than busy enough as it is.
Anyway, OS/2 was, is, comfy. I don’t really want to leave it behind. Need for DOS apps doesn’t need to interfere with internet life or Linux.
Such statements are enough to get me up a tree. I’m turning 82 and just started on tumbleweed a few months ago. And at 74 I made my first LibreOffice Base application. There was song “Don’t close me in”
LOL, wasn’t that “Don’t fence me in” ? ( Don't Fence Me In (song) - Wikipedia ).
The best thing my dad ( 1936 - 2023 ) taught me is that “an old dog can learn new tricks”.
