Posted on 03/29/2016 4:52:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s okay for my home computers. I upgraded all of them just to lock in the free offer for Windows 10. I do find it sluggish compared to Linux Mint. Click, slight lag with Windows 10 (probably reporting my clicks to the mother ship).
I’m sticking with Win98se.
That's true of everybody who makes similar statements, including you.
What you fail to address is, why didn't thousands of people who bother to post experiences with W10 have no similar problems with win7? Mass conversion to stupidity? Not a very useful response.
That was seriously your reply?
I am with you although we do have three laptops in our company that we run XP on. They are not connected to the internet and contain all our client and financial data plus all our specialized programs that we use in our daily business. Told my techie son that the day I have to change from W7 is the day I close up shop and retire.
Have never understood why if we are happy with what we have and it works fine, why must we change to something else or upgrade. I know that is the only way for these companies to make money. I would even be happy to pay a minimal annual fee to them just so they would go away but they do not even offer that option.
Search for the GWX Control Panel threads here on FR. I did, got rid of the “reminder” icon and stopped all the nonsense on my Win 7 machines.
There is a Freeper here who has this solved, and I am grateful to him or her.
If not, kill the clone and make a new clone of the old version to update when they get the fixes working. Only takes a couple of minutes.
I’ve been using Linux since 1994. Will never “go back” to Windows.
Currently running Debian with XFCE GUI install. Absolutely love it. Have been using XFCE since Redhat 8.0 came out.
Nothing I use today requires Windows. And there are a lot of “Good” apps that have no Windows equivalent.
Only thing I miss is Notepad++. It is not ported for Linux. Great editor. But minor issue, so many great editors to choose from.
I would love to switch out of Windows to something like Linux. Except in my 70’s I hate to switch from something I am familiar with. I also use a lot of programs I wrote myself in dBase. That programming language was very useful to me, but the company who developed it is long gone out of business. It works in Windows and DOS.
Microsoft has to give it away and force download Windows 10 and trick others and they only have 20%.
If they get rid of the spyware then Windows 10 would do much better.
M$ can endure the losses for the timebeing. The end game is that the follow-on to Win10 will be subscription-based. The purpose of Win10 is to give them enough control over the platform — something not built in to any Windows prior to 10 — to force you to update to this subscription-based follow-on. That will be the end of “buy-once, use-forever,” like Awgie’s Win98SE.
DOS emulators work pretty well within Linux.
Some programs work with Windows emulation software. Not all.
here is a site I use as a reference for Linux software. It is pretty complete. There are other sites with applications for specific distributions of Linux.
http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=dbase
There are a lot of flavors of Linux distributions.
Here are some of them, with brief descriptions.
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/
My advices is find a local mentor to help you get started. It is really not that steep a learn curve. There are some very knowledgeable linux users here on FR.
I understand. In Win98 you could actually make History, Temps, Cookies actually go away. Had to use command line in DOS window to do it, but it actually went away.
Not since.
Your post is meaningless without pictures. Oh, that is another post. Your post is merely meaningless. Of course, I am always open to the possibility that I am to stupid to understand your post, written in tongues like it is. Win10 is merely a fast, robust, secure operating system for computers, not a Rorschach test for Luddites. It doesn't fully support legacy programs because it jettisoned a lot of obsolete and insecure code. So obsolete and insecure people hate it. I have never met a person running Win10 who didn't like it. Most don't ever care which OS is being used as long as it works. Some people cannot be helped.
I feel your pain. Stay with what you got, Linux is a fun, fast, stable platform but it is like driving a stick shift after learning on an automatic; You have to spend some time learning about that mythical friction point! But it is so much fun.
Not so with dBase, a lovely program in its time. Now MS Access or one of its many free clones is the only way to go. Others may disagree, but we are not talking big iron and pure SQL, just and easy to use DB that will import your tables and probably your code too. It is daunting, but one step at a time, with help from excellent videos on YouTube and Web pages, you can drive it in no time and have so much fun at the same time. Please consider it, thank me later if you do it.
Just wow.
Don't give up your day job, whatever it is.
Actually, I haven't yet met a person running Win 10 who didn't like it either; but I have read many hundreds of posts over the last year or so from people who experienced total failure getting Win 10 installs to work at all, on PC's which previously ran win 7 perfectly. A couple were IT engineers with a couple of decades experience. Of course, they have unlimited resources and if a new PC doesn't work it is set aside for parts or returned, a luxury that most of us as individuals don't enjoy.
Funny, how many incompetent people trigger your love of yourself.
Publius, we agree that Win10 users are mostly satisfied, even all.
I think, despite your confusing paragraph structuring, misuse of clauses, poor punctuation and misuse of capitalization, we agree on my second statement; I posited people who fail to install Win10 are insecure and obsolete. To elaborate, using your examples, IT people in many cases will not read directions because they know it all already, and obsolete people who know a little bit and desperately hang onto that bit, complaining bitterly when asked to learn a little more. I was making a play on words when I wrote that, but it works surprising well.
So we agree. Let's also agree that the "Preview" button is your friend, not just a click on you way to "Post."
Concur. Run the Lightbeam app to see how many connections might be tracking your system. It’s a great little tool.
Don't worry, it's coming. Already happened to a version of Office. One of Bill Gates' dreams was to have a "pay as you go" operating system. The telemetry MSFT has built into Win 10 is a step in this direction.
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