Biting my tongue long enough. Is it really worth it? Seems 10 is about as bad as Vista or even ME from what I read on the internet. Happily on 8.1 until 2023. What is this "Creators" thing you speak of?
Joking a bit but no way I plan on havining 10 on anything. Linux before 10 in my book. Shoot, I'll be 70 by the time 8.1 support expires, if I'm still around I'm betting Windows might be a third tier OS the way they're going. I actually like Android on my phones and tablets better than Windows these days.
What Linux distro, BirdDog? I have Mint and I love it (is it lame to like Mint? I wonder if the cool Linux people like more sophisticated distros).
Mint is my preferred Linux distro, as well. I used to use Ubuntu, but a few years back it just got too "boring." I have Mint on a separate HDD in this desktop and have it as my OS in my old Athlon 64 desktop that I built years ago. I like Mint.
The first distro I ever installed was Ubuntu and I thought that was very nice, until I installed Mint. Mint is very very nice and very user friendly. I have never tried Fedora or any of the others. I hear they're for more advanced users. I had an old Windows XP laptop with a tendency to go into BSOD every few seconds, I removed Windows and installed Mint on it -- works great and no more BSODs.
maratsade wrote:The first distro I ever installed was Ubuntu and I thought that was very nice, until I installed Mint. Mint is very very nice and very user friendly. I have never tried Fedora or any of the others. I hear they're for more advanced users. I had an old Windows XP laptop with a tendency to go into BSOD every few seconds, I removed Windows and installed Mint on it -- works great and no more BSODs.
I do have Ubuntu installed on a bootable flash drive, though I don't really use it for anything other than trying it out on different systems (if I can get that computer to boot to a flash drive).
XP was actually the first OS where I didn't get the BSOD. I don't think I've had one since Me, knock on wood. I suspect it had a lot to do with it being based on NT and using NFTS instead of FAT32. I loved XP. It's a tossup between Windows XP and Windows 7 being my favorite Microsoft OS, overall.
maratsade wrote:What Linux distro, BirdDog? I have Mint and I love it (is it lame to like Mint? I wonder if the cool Linux people like more sophisticated distros).
Mint is great, I have it on dual boot. The more one learns about Linux they can move past the mass distributions like Mint, or not. Thing is it is a choice how a person advances, nothing forced. And free and user supported.
Will admit I like the old DOS days and lower level system control which Linux offers if a person wants to go there. Don't have to go that deep into the system though with the mass distro's.
Linux in some ways reminds me of the old Windows systems. :) I also remember the days of DOS and command lines.
maratsade wrote:Linux in some ways reminds me of the old Windows systems. :) I also remember the days of DOS and command lines.
You and BirdDog have been using computers for considerably longer than me. The first computer I used on a regular basis had Windows 95. I had a Commodore VIC20 and 64 when I was a kid, but I never really did much with them. A kid came up one day and connected a tape drive to the 64 and did some things and I thought it were fascinating, and I was amazed that you could do that, though it didn't stick enough to make me want to learn computers, at that point.
Had I known where we'd be today and I might have done things a little diffferently. Heck, had I known where we'd be today I would have invested in AOL at their first offering and gotten out in the early 2000s. LOL.
