Posted on 05/19/2024 11:57:09 AM PDT by fireman15
He gave me some great tips for the OS migration to Linux.
Wife has W11 but getting tired of turning off the microsoft crap that gets forced on the machine.
Looking at Linux Mint this afternoon on my experiment machine. comes up with everything she needs and stuff she won’t use but that’s OK. The Mint will be installed on her machine when I get aggravated enough.
One of my laptops has FreeDOS and Borland Turbo-C loaded. My other four desktops and one laptop have FreeBSD on them. Been using FreeBSD for over twenty years at home and at work. Backups are easy and I can reload a machine from scratch in about three hours. Reloads only occur when version support is turned off, anywhere from about 2 to 5 years.
And the BSDs rarely - years - crash.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about.
I got Ubuntu sort of running under WSL2 with Windows 11. The project took more time than I was willing to give it, but it did work somewhat, which I thought was quite an achievement for Microsoft. If you want help setting it up, I'm the wrong person to ask. Good luck.
Yes, XP.
Congress should at least require windows 11 to be installed on computers that can handle it. Many computers that are locked out are very fast computers. Quad core Gen 7 Intel processors are even locked out. Meaning that Microsoft expects people to throw them away. That has a huge environmental cost. So where is congress?
Thnx
Thnx.
I still have XP in some VMs.
Quad core Gen 7 Intel processors that are being thrown out?
Please send me same....
THAT was a totally excellent video.
I’m gonna need a translation of that post to understandable Standard English please.
“Hello, Windows10 will be supported until October 2025.
The exclusion of 7th generation Intel processors has been tested in the Insider program and by many independent institutions.
simply - the architecture of the processors and the possibility of failure was decisive.”
And its all BS as some of the comments indicate. When you have computer that can encode video at fast speed then it sure shouldn’t have any problem running an operating system.
Try Comodo Internal Security. It’s what I use on my Windows 7 installations.
I got the notice about the impending end-of-life, and shrugged it off.
My newest wintel is a Celeron based laptop, circa ten year old, and I plan to swap in an SSD, fix a couple minor things, and use it as an on-the-go machine. Given that I rarely go anywhere, it’ll probably get use around her, hooked to the bedroom flatscreen for my bone idle bum lifestyle.
Tomorrow I pick up an Apple refurb. The other time I bought an Apple refurb was mid- to late-1990s, and I still have it. I have a drive problem to fix on it, and I’ll have time to fix it in a few weeks.
I’ve got a couple other old laptops that need a little TLC, and a few Raspberry Pi’s which work fine, but are not powerhouses.
I’ve got one of those NUC-style Windows cheapies that all of a sudden (a couple months back) won’t boot, so I plan to try it with an external drive. Oh yeah, and a Windows stick is on one of the TVs, haven’t tried starting that one in while, a long while, either...
I’m old and computer illiterate and was surprised at how easy Linux was to use.
Uh I felt ‘raped’ with every fricking release and I am quite certain much of the aggravation was scripted by you-know-who - he’d love to vax you too.
You anti American jerk. You are shameful and have always been a military hater. Probably a Vietnam go to Canada loser.
Which is offensive to Linux devotees, and while we have on quite capable home built box running it for surfing, I have not found it justifying the time and energy I would want to make it comparable to Windows as customized, by the grace of God. As per post above.
I’m gonna need a translation of that post to understandable Standard English please.
Sorry, that was due to a "software" glitch and neglect to review code by the tired old hasty "programmer," who often imagines that what he is thinking gets clearly expressed in what he writes.
Which was,
Which reply ("Linux is not an option for most users") is offensive to Linux devotees, and while we have Linux running on a quite capable home-built rig, used mainly for surfing, yet I have not found Linux justifying the time and energy it would take to make it comparable to Windows as customized I would want it, by the grace of God, as described in my post above.
Requiring Congress to do this is not a practice that should be encouraged. Once they do that, what else would they want installed?
Thanks.
I’ve found Linux Mint to be quite capable of performing my [retired user] daily needs for the last ~7 years barring some Windows apps with are run as necessary on some old ‘doze machines still hanging about or in Virtual Box VMs.
My latest ‘doze is 7.
Hopefully I can live out my years without any more “modern” levels of M$.
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