Martin Young
New Member
Hello All:
A little background first. I'm a retired accountant and I have several "retired" Windows 7 machines that I put away when updates ceased to continue. I am fairly educated with many, but not all things computer. I have been, throughout my career an administrator, the SQL Guy, an Oracle guy, a Cost guy and a corporate controller.
Is there source information here on this site that can guide me to the best variant of Linux for my intended future use? I have 25 years of excel spreadsheets, emails and corporate information that, on occasion, people ask me questions about. I would need a variant that has the ability to run MS Office 2010 or newer. I refuse to use Office 365. I also have disks that go back to Windows 3.1, books, games...nothing was ever thrown away. I even have recovery disks from my very first machine and a full working copy of Lotus 123
The first machine I intend to convert is a Lenovo T510 Think Pad, I7 gen5, 64 bit, 750GB HDD, 8GB DDR3, purchased new March 2011. All of the current data on the machine has been archived, so I will start clean and stupid.
I would prefer to use a GUI type environment and be able to attach to and print through my home network. I also have the external dock, so I would also like to be able to use two external monitors.
Your guidance is appreciated
Martin
A little background first. I'm a retired accountant and I have several "retired" Windows 7 machines that I put away when updates ceased to continue. I am fairly educated with many, but not all things computer. I have been, throughout my career an administrator, the SQL Guy, an Oracle guy, a Cost guy and a corporate controller.
Is there source information here on this site that can guide me to the best variant of Linux for my intended future use? I have 25 years of excel spreadsheets, emails and corporate information that, on occasion, people ask me questions about. I would need a variant that has the ability to run MS Office 2010 or newer. I refuse to use Office 365. I also have disks that go back to Windows 3.1, books, games...nothing was ever thrown away. I even have recovery disks from my very first machine and a full working copy of Lotus 123
The first machine I intend to convert is a Lenovo T510 Think Pad, I7 gen5, 64 bit, 750GB HDD, 8GB DDR3, purchased new March 2011. All of the current data on the machine has been archived, so I will start clean and stupid.
I would prefer to use a GUI type environment and be able to attach to and print through my home network. I also have the external dock, so I would also like to be able to use two external monitors.
Your guidance is appreciated
Martin