Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 18.04.2022 11:35

  AS>>> No, I have had (asexual) intercourse with such systems:
  AS>>> MS-DOS and Linux.
  AK>> So you should know what is more friendly for a user. ;)
  AS> I am undecided.  The last sane version of Windows is XP,
  AS> which I am using, but I will have to install a more modern
  AS> OS on my new PC, and it shall not be Windows.  I hear the
  AS> FreeDOS does not suport UEFI...

For old MSDOS games I use DosBox -- works on new computers well. If I 
need old Windows versions for some reason I use VMWare. I have some soft 
that works on Windows 98 only. ;)

  AK>> Long ago when fidonet was a quiet populous place
  AS> "quiet populous" is quite oxymoronious :-)

"Quite" is IMHO a very often used English word-parasite. ;-)
https://tinyurl.com/y5fnbnyw

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor,local.cc.ak 2022
--- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0