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.
I admit I'm out of the loop on this "Creators" thing. What is it and do I need it? Or is it a marketing thing like the Samsung Galaxy 8 and newest IPhone?
Thinking I don't need it.
It is a pretty significant update. It adds a whole range of features to Windows 10, but each user will only care about a couple of them depending on their circumstances. It does have a handful of security patches which are necessary.
In all honesty I wouldn't call it a marketing thing. It really does offer a lot.
BirdDog wrote:I admit I'm out of the loop on this "Creators" thing. What is it and do I need it? Or is it a marketing thing like the Samsung Galaxy 8 and newest IPhone?
Thinking I don't need it.
No, you don't need it, unless you are one who does a lot of gaming and such. It's got a few decent updates compared to the previous version of Windows 10, but a lot of game based updates, too. Not needing it is just my opinion, of course.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/features
Matt_Is_My_Name wrote:It is a pretty significant update. It adds a whole range of features to Windows 10, but each user will only care about a couple of them depending on their circumstances. It does have a handful of security patches which are necessary.
In all honesty I wouldn't call it a marketing thing. It really does offer a lot.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/features
I'm old, that stuff doesn't impress me. I have Classic Shell installed on my computers. I have old desktop style on all computers, no tiles, just icons. I'm a dying breed, it is OK, time marches on but going to stick with what I like and know. Android touch and swipe is fine on my phone and tablets but I like icons, mouse and old desktop style on PC. Hate tiles and touch on PC. I'm old.
