Back when I worked in IT the saying was "If the data doesn't exist in three places, the data doesn't exist."
Granted our three places included two cassette tapes which failed all the time.
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 is this "Creators" thing you speak of?"
It is a "divine" OS.
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: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.
BirdDog wrote: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?
Windows 10 has been good for me. I didn't care for Vista, either, and as for the Mistake Edition, I would rather use an abacus and snail mail. It was AWFUL! It was with ME that I got very familiar with the dreaded BSOD. We were on a first name basis. LOL.
I don't know that there is really any advantage for me in having Windows 10 over Windows 8.1. I think it's more a thing of being up to date, and I suspect it's pretty much the same with most consumers, though I'm sure some are ignorant enough about computers and the internet that they think upgrading to Windows 10 is almost a necessity.
My notebook has W8.1 and my folks' laptop does, as well. It works fine for both.
GabeU wrote:
BirdDog wrote: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?
Windows 10 has been good for me. I didn't care for Vista, either, and as for the Mistake Edition, I would rather use an abacus and snail mail. It was AWFUL! It was with ME that I got very familiar with the dreaded BSOD. We were on a first name basis. LOL.
I don't know that there is really any advantage for me in having Windows 10 over Windows 8.1. I think it's more a thing of being up to date, and I suspect it's pretty much the same with most consumers, though I'm sure some are ignorant enough about computers and the internet that they think upgrading to Windows 10 is almost a necessity.
My notebook has W8.1 and my folks' laptop does, as well. It works fine for both.
I've only used Windows 1, Windows 2, 3.1, Vista, XP, and now Windows 10. I skipped ME and Windows 8.
I haven't had much trouble with Windows, really, though sometimes it can be very annoying, especially the cryptic error messages (like the errors at particular memory addresses.....) -- I prefer the Mac's error messages; I can actually understand them.
