Post by Bayer A.User on Oct 22, 2015 15:39:59 GMT -6
Todays Distros are better than ever. More gui's, less terminal commands. Familiar to windows users. Software Updater,gives you full control over updates.PackageManager installs/uninstalls anything. Zorin9.1core. Installed on my P775 last year. Look changer WinXP, Win7, or Gnome Endless customization options LTS versions available
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Post by Bayer A.User on Oct 23, 2015 18:48:44 GMT -6
Do you HATE what has become of Windows update ? Here is an example of UpdateManager in LinuxMint17.1 Updates are numbered & colorcoded- you have complete control
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Post by Locutus deBorg on Oct 25, 2015 19:11:35 GMT -6
> ...but I am aware that staying on an older Windows system is going to become harder and harder. _________________________________________________________________________________________________
The worst of it will be storage: as soon as 4K/4K HDDs hit the fan no more win 7 and older can be installed due to zero support for 4K/4K sector HDDs winders ape was the first MS-OS to have storage driver support for 4K/4K sector HDDs vista even has trouble with AFD 4K/512e HDDs when cloned from 512/512 legacy or restored from recovery media, all Vista pre-installed were built on Legacy 512/512 HDD and the OS fails big time when cloned or factory reset / restore to AFD only a fresh install from Retail FPP, Upgrade FPP, OEM System Builder, VLK media will be OK with being installed on an AFD 4K/512e HDD XP and older don't care as long as the HDD firmware says it has 512 and the partition is aligned to 4K eg. aligned to sector 64 / 8 which is @ 32,768 rather than the old sector 63 which is @ 32,256 which is a leftover from ancient CHS addressing schemes of ancient BIOS and disk controllers
stock up on any legacy 512/512 and AFD 4K/512e HDDs you can get
Motherboards, RAM, CPU, AMD/ATI Graphics, no problemo Asus.com > motherboards > AMD platform pick anything from the of AMD Based motherboards and it will currently have driver support all the way back to XP
recently built an XP system around this board Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
also to access the remaining 4GB RAM a nice little RAMDrive Program gives me a super fast 4GB temporary working drive using the RAMDrive for Adobe Audition primary Temp folder (makes editing absolutely blazing fast as it's 98% in CPU and RAM)
I do use LMDE for testing and sometimes file recovery from dead systems but vista and up are not actually capable of doing what I need for vista / win 7 is fine for web use and the updated diskpart which allows me to make aligned AFDs for XP that's all I have used vista / win 7 for
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
I agree that Linux is probably best poised to be the successor to windows. Someone once told me that there is a lot more to computing than just windows. I've taken that to heart and have played with many OS's as a result of that. Presented below is a short list to information about various OS's that have been flying low under the radar or is in development or could easily be brought out of retirement. I once had this list in a posting on the MS forums which promptly got pulled. Perhaps Microsoft did not like something on it, but here it is again in no particular order. Please note that some of these sites do not work very well under IE11.
Speaking of ReactOS, sounds like a promising project for Chuck's famed RealOS team to work on. I've tried it a couple times, and while it needs more kernel work, I believe that it's the most advanced direct Windows replacement so far.
Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
I know that the LMDE version is pure debian and receives bleeding edge packages that have not been tested as much. Possible you got a buggy version of gnome. Between Mint13 & 14 there was a change in desktop front ends so maybe try the latest version. LMDE 2 ? LMDE 1 is good for another year i think.
Post by Bayer A.User on Oct 27, 2015 6:00:13 GMT -6
Want to try Linux ? First find out what works/doesn't on your specific machine. Save yourself time and aggravation, use the Hardware Database community.linuxmint.com/hardware
Post by stefansart on Oct 28, 2015 11:16:43 GMT -6
I installed Linux Red Hat 5.2 when i got my IBM Aptiva E04-pc. It was tricky back then, i had to emulate a 3-button mouse, even if it only was a 2-button mouse. Took me a while to figure that out. But i loved Red Hat 5.2. It worked wonderful on my IBM-computer. Since then i have tried many Linux dists. I love some and hate others. Most seem to find drivers for my hardware, old and new hardware. Especially Nvidia and AMD work very good. Now i have a SSD drive 500GB (Samsung EVO840) so i am not sure wish dist support it fully. Anyone know ?
Post by big bad bombastic bob on Oct 28, 2015 12:44:40 GMT -6
spent a bit of wall time yesterday setting up 2 laptops to run Debian 'Wheezy'. I picked that distro because bluetooth works in that, and it's easy to set up Mate, etc. wtih it, and a few other reasons.
these laptops are intended for testers to flash firmware with. click an icon, firmware flashes. like that. maybe I'll add code to make it easier or more obvious, or maybe not. It's the "cheap solution" for customer.
I can't imagine the alternative - a $10k bed of nails and firmware flasher that's harder to update. my solutions are cheap and just as good. I should have more people beating on my door to get them done.
Post by big bad bombastic bob on Nov 3, 2015 15:07:21 GMT -6
One big problem with Linux: a lack of commercial software support for packages that a lot of people use.
Potential solutions:
1. code it in Java like Oracle does 2. use a cross-platform toolkit, like wxWidgets, Qt, and GTK 3. use MFC to code it in windows, then port it to wxWidgets when the market requires an X11 [or MAC!] version
Todays Distros are better than ever. More gui's, less terminal commands. Familiar to windows users. Software Updater,gives you full control over updates.PackageManager installs/uninstalls anything. Zorin9.1core. Installed on my P775 last year. Look changer WinXP, Win7, or Gnome Endless customization options LTS versions available
Too many forks for me. It means too many cooks making too many varieties of stew.
Besides, if I Yogi and take every fork, I would never get anywhere.
Tossed Windows and am now using Debian for my new laptop at home. I have an old laptop that I also installed Debian on for relatives/friends when they come over with Windows 10 devices wanting to use my Internet. Installed Lubuntu on my Netbook, also for visitors that show up with Windows 10 wanting to use my Internet. Thanks for that suggestion Bob!
I'll run Windows in VMs, but unless the malware in the OS goes away, it'll be relegated to the VM.
Someone mentioned Linux not having programs. I'm not so sure that's the case any more. I'm sure there may be some, but there are solutions to that, such as Wine. Wine doesn't solve every issue, and for those that it doesn't, there's always a VM.
Dan,I agree with you. Linux does have a good software library but for me its the particular software. I actual love VS and have been using it for years. Im not a fan of just using a VM because then you have to load Windows AND load VS all ON TOP of your OS. Most VM software such as VMWare which is what i use are still lacking on Linux. Nothing major but combining that with the additionally resource usage and it makes it not very feasible.
There is Micosoft Code, A cross platform IDE that works for linux and MacOS too, however its very limited and not a suitable replacement for VS at this time.
Also welcome to the forum glad you're here. If you need anything or have any questions let me or a staff member know or you can ask pretty much anyone here.This forum is filled with knowledgeable and very experienced users willing to help others.
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Ami, Thanks for the welcome! I'm actually Dan-At_Work from the Insider Forums.
I'm not a developer so about the only thing I can't do on Linux that I can't do in Windows is some remote systems administration. I don't mind running VMs to do other things. Or, I can just remote into a Windows server to do whatever I can't do directly in Linux. We have to do that at work anyway, so doing it at home is no big deal. And, as soon as I find a good desktop, I'll be installing XenServer and virtualizing my Windows servers and eventually replacing them with Linux servers.
I used to use VMWare a lot at work, but the yearly upgrades got to be too expensive. I just couldn't justify it anymore, so I use Virtual Box at home and at work. It doesn't have all the features of VMWare Workstation, but I didn't really use those extra features anyway.
I've only had my Linux laptop for a couple of weeks, but so far Virtual Box works well. I have a Windows 7 VM running in it, and plan to install a Windows 10 VM soon to see what they've been up to. The only thing I've had problems installing in Virtual Box is openSUSE LEAP. I haven't had the time to find out why, but it's probably because LEAP is too new and Virtual Box hasn't released drivers for it yet.
Dan,i kind of new that was you but it seems some folks get upset when i ask. i only ask because i want to know who im talking to in case we wanted to pick up from the other forum but i have to respect the wishes of the users when it comes to privacy/anonymity. Besides working on this site and my personal projects that is one of my top functions.
Dont get me wrong i run VM's all the time and i think its a great tool. My only concern is running it just for a single program (VS in or higher.my case). It would be different if i could use a lightweight version like XP but later versions of VS requires 7 or higher.
On-line resources may be bountiful for Linux, but no one has really posted anything here for the beginner's. Hopefully this will help remedy the situation:
Post by Bayer A.User on Dec 29, 2015 10:10:13 GMT -6
BSD, I call it my bullshit defense. A bit of a learning curve required but after a few days it becomes more natural. The latest PC-BSD 10.2 Desktop version works fine on my P775toshiba. Clean installed on new SanDisk SSD. Unix has been around for a long time, Now you can actually get a well sorted PC version that doesn't require an entire bottle of aspirin after endless terminal sessions. www.pcbsd.org
Plenty of customization options. Traditional "classic" start menu if you want. AppCafe is the GUI access "Store" where you can get/install just about anything you want.
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OK, so you choose one of these distros and go with it. What's the long-term story? Are there occasional updates? Reinstalls of later versions? In other words, how's the continuity once you're in?
Also, are there benchmarks that run on, say, both Windows and Linux platforms with which you could compare performance? My experience (quite long ago now, unfortunately) with Linux was that it was pretty efficient, but I wasn't doing anything with GUIs then.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6