“in win 10, you have no choice, you eventually have to get all updates they throw at you”
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Yup, just another item under the “Why it sux” category. I’ll just keep Win 7 on a few machines after it’s support runs out. I won’t use it for anything online, but just to run some Windows programs I prefer to keep using.
I can access anything on Win7 using Linux, so no problem with file management between operating systems.
yeah i dual boot- i run linux mint as my main operating system for almost all my online stuff- email, browsing net etc- when i boot into windows 7, i do so to use photoshop, or play an online racing game I like- or other offline windows only games (windows still does dominate in that area- although i guess with linux and a steam account, one can play windows based games on linux now- but i haven’t looked into that yet)
I don’t do any email or browsing on my windows os- and 90% of my time on the computer is done with linux- it does everything i need it to do online- email;, research, browsing, etc- it’s amazing how far linux has come from it’s early days- very easy to use now- and ‘nearly virus immune’ compared to windows virus magnet-
as an added bonus, IF anything should happen to the linux installation, I can simply reinstall, update the os- put a couple of apps back on the way i like them, and I’m back up and running in about 1 hour as compared to days for windows (tweaking windows, updating which takes forever, getting protection for the os configured etc- windows just had so many annoyances that i had to ‘fix’ to get it to behave the way I wanted it to- that it took forever and extensive notes to remember all of them- linux just works the way i like almost right out of the box
The dual boot was a little bit of a hassle to set up, but once set up, I now have the best of both worlds-