An interesting point is occurring to me, based on Mike Walsh's post.

Those of my age and older, lived through the days of MS-DOS.

If you happened to have had a temperament and/or inclination to contend with MS-DOS back in the day, then Linux will be somewhat welcome in your mind.

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Dear All,
Thank you all for your kind help and advice. I am going to close this thread now as I feel that I will be better served with a new thread as and when I have questions that I cannot find the answers for already posted on this site.
My son has emailed me to say that I do not have to start with a Dear All or name and that it is not necessary to end with Kind Regards, I have replied that good manners demands that I do. Luddite or not, this I will not change.
My Conclusion after all the replies on this thread.
Blow it all, the advice offered has caused me to decide that I will download and start with Linux. Why bother to learn Windows 10 and all the software needed and then learn Linux? So, I am going with Linux and one step at a time, will learn my new lessons with that medium.
Thank you all so much.
Kind Regards,
Grandfather.

Dear Grandfather,

Good for you! Go for it.

You can mark this thread "Solved" through the "Thread Tools" menu at the top of the thread.

I look forward to your future questions.

Kind regards, Hydrurga

I think you'd be interested in the number of members that are older than 60 at LQ.

In a word... Plenty.