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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 22, 2018 6:18:06 GMT
The big money these days is in computers as the 'public at large' are simply too thick to understand them, or too busy doing other things to spend half their lives reading the instructions. Taking your 'sick' computer to a 'specialist' is like taking your dog to the vets, ripped-off and the patient never complains. Computers and the Internet have been a good way to enslave almost everyone.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 6:35:06 GMT
Anybody using linux mint rather than windows as a platform. Windows is just getting worse by the day. Ubuntu fulfils most basic needs like internet, email, music, video etc. It even comes free with it’s own version of Office. Ubuntu is itself free too. The problem is that if you are into gaming or some specialist piece of software, there may not be a version which will run on Ubuntu. You can load up WINE which is a Windows emulator to get around this, but it can be hit or miss. I also still use XP on my laptop. Microsoft stopped updating it for years which is why it’s stable and works! When you think about it, have the Windows updates really improved life for the average user since Windows 95?
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Post by Telemachus on Sept 22, 2018 6:41:22 GMT
Anybody using linux mint rather than windows as a platform. Windows is just getting worse by the day. ! When you think about it, have the Windows updates really improved life for the average user since Windows 95? Yes. Later versions of Windows (XP and on) are much more stable. Never had BSOD on win 7 or 10.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 6:53:20 GMT
! When you think about it, have the Windows updates really improved life for the average user since Windows 95? Yes. Later versions of Windows (XP and on) are much more stable. Never had BSOD on win 7 or 10. The ‘blue screen of death’ was often due to poor handling of interupts which were normally down to poorly written code in the program running on Windows. (don’t ask me how I know this...lol). What I do know is that I haven’t had to waste money on buying the latest version of Windows, or waste hundreds of hours of my life rebuilding my laptop due to junk, for years now.
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Post by bodger on Sept 22, 2018 7:04:57 GMT
I rue the day when I updated to windows 10!! Windows 7 was so much better Windows 10 is a joke. It just bungs my lappy up with junk. The updates seem to be daily, and seriously slow the puter for the first half hour or so. I just want rid. Perhaps the main reason that Windows is becoming a joke is that it is designed to make money for MS and their friends, by making it more and more easy for marketing and advertising to creep into your screen-space, rather than it being designed by MS as a user-friendly system for the user/purchaser of a computer; the purchaser has little choice, 95% of computers will have Windows installed when put on sale. I have run Windows 7 since it was introduced and have few problems. Is it unsupported now? I can't remember the last time I was notified of an update - thank god. MS support is a bloody nuisance. My son introduced an Epson printer (plus all the gimmicks) to my computer and now I get update notifications from them once or twice a week (which I ignore). Why on earth does a printer need to do that?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 12:23:17 GMT
Quite impressed with the product. It came as a key that plugged into one of the usb ports. Pressed f12 on fire up, selected boot from flash drive, and off we went. Will never see the crap windows again.
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Post by zigspider on Sept 24, 2018 21:53:13 GMT
Have been running Linux Mint for at least 3 years now, No problems so far, Does everything I need and a lot faster as well.
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Post by Allan on Oct 3, 2018 16:35:56 GMT
Have been running Linux Mint for at least 3 years now, No problems so far, Does everything I need and a lot faster as well. I have been running Linux Mint for about two years as my main desktop system. I had some minor problems with running two screens but less than previously on WIN 10. Also a minor problem printing booklets due to differences in support for that feature between HP windows drivers and HPLIP on Unix. The software for interrogating C&RT's stoppage database was written under Mint and ported to Android without problems. If I had tried developing it under Windows, I would still be writing it ... - www.thefloater.org/the-floater-october-2018/does-crt-board-know-the-real-number-of-emergency-closuresRegarding WIN 10, my wife runs it on her PC. Bit of a problem this am as I was looking a report of two viruses found by Windows Defender only to be sidetracked by an update to an old version of Microsoft Office failing. As I looked into that WIN 10 decided that it would do the just released bi-annual feature upgrade. Two hours wasted whilst I found out the virus alerts were 'false positives', the update was not for the correct version of Office and installing some software to allow me to switch Windows upates on and off as required. Upgraded Update Manager in Mint is very good ...
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Post by tonyb on Nov 14, 2018 17:31:04 GMT
Late to the party but I have been running Mint on my laptop and desktop for well over a year. It seems fine. I also installed WINE that allows me to run many of the programs I ran under XP on Mint or any other Linux.
Sorting out printing to a Kyocera was a bit of a faff but its fine, if a bit slow compared with XP now. The Brother colour laser is as fast as it ever was so possibly a poor Kyocera driver
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2018 17:53:17 GMT
Late to the party but I have been running Mint on my laptop and desktop for well over a year. It seems fine. I also installed WINE that allows me to run many of the programs I ran under XP on Mint or any other Linux. Sorting out printing to a Kyocera was a bit of a faff but its fine, if a bit slow compared with XP now. The Brother colour laser is as fast as it ever was so possibly a poor Kyocera driver I don't have the first clue about computers but it's a good chance to say nice to see you posting 🍻🚢👍🔨🔨
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