Windows took over my wife’s computer a few weeks back. I make her back up everything, so I just erased the hard drive and reinstalled 7 and put everything back on it.
Loaded opensuse 13.2 on her computer so she can do her typing. She kept messing up with LibreOffice, so now I have her using Abiword.
99% of anything I do on a computer I can do on linux. Years ago I started with Mandrake, Red Hat, debian, and got some Suse 8 disks.
Been using Suse ever since. Sorry, I am old and used to KDE and think suse is the best when it comes to the KDE desktop.
I use windows for the family tree programs (they are just easier). But I disconnect from the internet whenever I am on windows. I did download windows 10 on one partition. It looks like a big advertising gimmick.
For what I use windows for, a ‘98 windows would do fine. Still mad that I couldn’t put Word Perfect 6 on XP. Did all my newletters on that.
Don’t need to be plugged in to the internet to play windows games on your computer, and she can play online games on linux.
I have little use for windows.
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If you HAVE to have a computer to run GAMES for the vast majority of its useage, then you probably need microsoft for most of them.
For any other REAL useage of your computer, say for instance, for like some REAL number-crunching or design work, then you should have discovered by now that you should run a REAL Operating System to get the most bang for your buck. Why do you think the high-end Engineering and Design companies run on the ‘nix platform? Unix, BSD, Red Hat Enterprise, Ubuntu -they choose them over the ‘doze platform for some very good reasons.
Of course, if all you need to do is browse the web and send emails and pictures back and forth, then really -think about it- why do you feel the need to have some bloated OS taking up so much hard drive space and demanding so much memory for functions that can be easily done with a machine running only a browser and notepad function?
Win10 offers absolutely no advanced capabilities in that regard if you think about it. How “advanced” does your OS need to be to run a browser and deal with emails?
WordPerfect! I forgot how much I miss that pgm!