Windows 10 To Surpass Windows 7 Before 2017 Ends, According To Recent Data

Fossbytes ^ | 10/16/2017

[MayflowerMadam]

Both Dell and HP sell new systems with Windows 7 (a downgrade of Win 10 systems). They’re usually found in the “business” PCs section. Not cheap, but so worth it.

[zeugma]

Hey- been looking into systemd a bit- can’t really decifer what it does that’s bad except maybe open up the os to a possible DNS attack? Also, it seems it might not boot up properly from time to time? for the average user like me, who basically just use the os to browse internet, email, watch youtube etc, would the Systemd be a major problem? Or is it more a problem for for those who develop for linux and programs? I’ve been readi8gn a few forums on the issue- and it seems about split on for or against opinions

For your average user, probably not much of a problem. It's more of an issue for folk that need to dig in deep to stuff or troubleshoot issues. One of my main issues is that it breaks the paradigm of having flat text error logs. Also, determining the exact order that everything will start is really problematic with systemd. Sometimes, this is important, and I'm of the opinion that just about anything that is more complex than it needs to be, is a bad idea. For me, init.d, and rc.d runlevels worked just fine. They were easy to understand.

Avoiding systemd is almost impossible these days unless you do a lot of research before hand. It's expanding like kudzu into every crevice of Linux. Makes me think of looking at BSD again.

[Bob434]

[[One of my main issues is that it breaks the paradigm of having flat text error logs.]]

Thaqt was kind of the impression i was getting from the forums- but they also said it opened up linux to a possibility of DNS attacks also (but i guess there was a patch for that?)

Hopefully linux doesn’t become prone to all kinds of viruses and attacks like windows is- that was one of the main reasons for my switching- I was getting sick of the near constant effort needed to ward off viruses and Trojans and crap in windows- It was getting real bad where you’d do a search’ click on say ‘hunting gear for fall’ link, and it would immediately redirect you to an infected page or site and bam- virus- (fortunately i had rollback RX for windows which saved my bacon a number of times- just roll back to a time before the virus hit- and you were good to go- excellent program by the way- allowed rollbacks during boot if the computer wouldn’t start because of virus- wouldn’t run windows without it)

[Nuc 1.1]

We will be changing over toward the end of next year. Will be going to a 64 bit system at that time. Very badly needed due to Windows memory limitation on 32 bit machines. Looking forward to the extra capability but not the operating system.