Pff. OSX is just Linux with training wheels screwed on. 
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That’s good to hear, thanks.
This happened after a Windows 7 update.
Well, the Windows 10 USB installer that MS wrote for me doesn’t work. It just seems to spend a lot of time reading data and then does nothing, with the Win 10 logo the only thing on the monitor the whole time.
But I just remembered I have an unused Vista Home 64 retail box disk - so I’m currently installing that. The PC is only for admin and watching TV or editing videos, so I will either use Vista and not worry about it, or see if it offers the 10 update, and just do that, using the activation code MS gave me.
Should be fine.
He says… 
So, the saga continues - and it ain’t purty!
I was very happily using Vista Home 64 - no problems and did all I wanted. Except DCS World will refuse to install on it.
I tried to get round that, but for some reason it kept throwing a wobbler.
So - just to be able to run a DCS standalone server, I reinstalled Windows 10 (can’t believe I let myself in for this again…).
As Win 10 just goes right ahead with installing updates without so much as an “at your convenience” the installation took over 3 hours!
After that, and going through all the “options” for supposed privacy etc, I run the activation, using the code that MS themselves had given me when they last put their hooks into this very same PC, remotely. You guessed it:
“This activation code is invalid, as it has already been used”.
Yup - that’s the code they told me I could use as many times as I wanted with reinstalls of Win 10, as long as it was only on one PC at a time. It has never been on any other PC and was only on this one for a matter of days, several months ago.
Then I remembered something that I was told at the time MS were in my PC - if I used my MS account details to log into the PC, I would get automatic activation, without even needing to input the code. This was then also confirmed by MS’ telephone service. So, I logged into my MS account (and ticked to “stay logged in” - changed my PC profile password to the MS account one, and went back to the activation.
“This activation code is invalid, as it has already been used”.
I really, really wish there was an alternative - and I wish we could use DCS World on any O/S. Vista has everything 7 has - so why the hell not? I was happy. Now I am very, very unhappy. To put it mildly.
Now I have to go on the phone to MS again - but if they want to get into my PC again (took them over an hour last time and they put loads of rubbish on there I didn’t want, whilst spewing promo tosh at me over the phone) they can go and swing from one. I’ll be back to Vista and DCS can do the same as MS.
PS - I did try to update directly from Vista to 10, but it refused. Apparently you can’t do it from Vista.
It looks the same but the kernel most certainly has a host of different things bolted on/in. Also note that both products have had a different support cycle, both my manufacturers and developers. So yeah, it makes sense that they dropped support for DCS when both the original developer as well as the equipment producers have stopped supporting it.
Surely, by now it’s cheaper to just get a new Win 10 license and be done with it?
I wondered which nerd, erm, member would come up with that 
Win 10 licence costs me nothing - I just don’t want it. One of the main reasons in this particular case is compatability with the progs I want to run on it.
Seems over 2/3 of the PC market still agrees with me, as well.
Oh, btw - I did manage to activate it on the 'phone by lying to MS. Well, they lied to me about the code they gave me, so I reckon we’re now even.