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AndyPix

I_Love_comps wrote: »

I was offered Windows 10 for free. Which I would have used on my laptop which 5 years old.
I decided not to upgrade , as so many other people where saying that it slowed there laptop down and mine is slow enough (probably due it's age), or they had other problems.

I will probably have to change this laptop soon because of age anyway have to get used to all of those funny boxes you click onto like on the microsoft phone I own.

a) You will most likely find your old laptop is much faster with a clean install of W10 on it.
b) Those funny boxes went out with W8 (mostly)

Fightsback

poppellerant wrote: »

The real cost of switching to Linux

Get the facts ?

It just depends on what you need to deliver, if it's a browser (lots of things can run in a browser), email client etc then it really doesn't matter about the OS. Anyhow the pendulum is swinging back to server side which us old fogies well remember as dumb terminals and mainframes.

esuhl wrote: »

"Resort"?! Now that's not the right attitude!

Typing commands that do exactly what you want instead of faffing around with a hundred clicks in a GUI is one of the joys of GNU/Linux, isn't it?!

Alternatively one click instead of 100s of cli commands, being of a lazy persuasion I have a preference for the former

henm2

esuhl wrote: »

If you're going to use GNU/Linux without bothering to use a terminal shell, then why would you go to the effort of using Linux at all? Surely Windows would be a much better choice for people who aren't technically-minded?

It seems silly to choose GNU/Linux just for bragging rights.

I have mainly used Linux based operating systems since 2007 starting with PClinuxOS and in recent years Linux Mint. I rarely use a command line (CLI) as I find it simpler to use a GUI just as you would normally with Windows. In fact the only times I have used CLI is when I have installed Kodi and also when I have installed Multisystem ( used for creating multiboot USB flash drives with a number of operating systems and rescue utilities on the one drive).

The main advantages of Linux over Windows are security (no hassles with Trojans etc) and I find it simpler and more stable to use than Windows. You do not have to be technically minded to use Linux.

Kernel_Sanders

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Strange that so many that slagged off XP on its release now won't move on .

I expect Service Pack 3 had something to do with it.

spud17

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

I expect Service Pack 3 had something to do with it.

When was that released? Why did no one tell me?