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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I changed over to Linux over a decade ago, a hand built Gentoo system, compiled it myself on several machines, fast and sweet....... and then eventually changed back. Linux is cool, and I sometimes try out the latest distro, but truthfully, there is no reason for me to choose it over Windows 10. From an every day practical standpoint, Linux offers me nothing over Windows.

I still geek with it, and with virtual box, its easier than ever, but there is just no reason for me to choose it over Windows. I do look forward, however, to this endevour, who knows what they might come up with.

26 posted on 03/30/2016 10:08:59 AM PDT by Paradox (It's all changed for me now.)
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To: Paradox

[[I changed over to Linux over a decade ago, a hand built Gentoo system, compiled it myself on several machines, fast and sweet]]

Had i discovered linux at a younger age, when i was more able to explore and learn (like i had to with windows), I would have probably gone with a ‘build it yourself’ distro- but I’m now at an age where I’m too tired to learn a new operating system fro mscratch unfortunately-

[[but truthfully, there is no reason for me to choose it over Windows 10.]]

Meh- windows 10 is a massive spyware now- you can’t even turn off some of the spyware without some additional software, and who knows if they even work? MS just got way too aggressive for my liking- With older versions of windows, you could turn off the more benign spyware stuff, and MS wouldn’t re enable it on you like they do with windows 10 now- plus they no longer allow the user to choose which updates they want- they force it on us now— I just didn’t like the direction they are headed in lately- and I believe they are practically forcing windows 120 on people (and tricking them into downloading and installing it via updates) in as planned later effort to go to a ‘pay per month’ model like Adobe photoshop did- no thanks


32 posted on 03/30/2016 10:18:59 AM PDT by Bob434
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