Slowly Migrating from Windows

[GrumpyParticipant]

Well, I took the plunge today after work and installed Linux Mint 18 – cinnamon- 64bit as a dual boot on my secondary PC. Once I get more familiar with it, I’ll probably do the same with my Primary PC.
Since I only need windows to play Evercrack.. I mean Everquest, and it appears that all the productivity stuff I need is available in Linux, this just may be the beginning of the end of my dependency on Microsoft s~~~.

I’m getting fed up with some t~~~ at MS deciding what is best for my computing experience. Considering its hardware that I bought, software that I paid for, set up the way I like it, using an ISP that I pay for, with money I earn.

I use computers, not frigging smart phones or tablets. I have to disable my touchscreen, cameras, and reset ALL my preferences after every patch on 2 desktops and a laptop.
IMHO windows 10 is good for gaming/videos only, other than that, I’m not to impressed with the intrusiveness or the heavy handed attitude of MS.
I mean seriously, enough screwing around with s~~~ I pay for

There was a time in my life when I gave a fuck. Now you have to pay ME for it

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

Grumpy wrote:

IMHO windows 10 is good for gaming/videos only,

It’s not even that good for gaming. It’s just supported by the largest number of developers. That’s not the same thing.

I really REALLY hope SteamOS becomes more of a thing.

[RennieParticipant]

I don’t like how mainstream computing is turning utterly retarded either.

Windows used to be a business class operating system. But now it’s just turning into kiddie crap. Even the server version is polluted. Why can’t we have modern Windows with a straightforward Windows 2000 look and feel?

I hope someone comes along with a professional alternative that is able to gain traction with hardware vendors.

[DeltchParticipant 36]

As a young man majoring in Network Security Administration, I can concur that Windows has definitely seen better days. Although Windows 10 is actually not all that terrible if you know how to gut all the useless crap from it (NSA tracking s~~~ and whatnot), I’ve found Windows 10 to be pretty nice for laptops or single monitor desktops because of a certain feature, however if you are a gamer you should definitely use Windows 10 because of DirectX12, but other than that its probably a good idea to use Windows 7 if you don’t use any high amount of graphics power.

On a side note, I used Linux Mint for a while which seems to be good for users that are transitioning from Windows to get a feel for Linux, but I recently got a grasp on Arch Linux and so far even though it’s difficult to get things working, I’ve found that Arch Linux is very nice to customize once you’ve got everything working and you kind of feel a sense of accomplishment knowing that you basically built-up your own OS and customized it the way you want it to, but thats me personally atleast.

[Veritech AceParticipant 699]

I have literally had to shut off the Windows Update service, because every few updates screws up my computer. I manually update about once a month when I have time to deal with it. If I didn’t need my Windows computer for work, I would have already migrated to Linux too. One more slight from Mockrosoft [sic] and that’s it…I’m converting all my computers to Linux and doing work stuff in a virtual machine.

[Anonymous 42]

Windows went from a United Technologies space age feel straight to Fisher Price in only a couple of years.

All the controls are hidden to give it a Euro sleek look, I returned a bran new computer last year with W-8, the “help box” had disappeared and I spent hours trying to assimilate!

The assimilation was reminiscent of a radical Islamic terrorist trying to assimilate into an LGBT jamboree!

I cut its head off…

[GnosticParticipant 2491]

Microsoft want to make your window a subscribtion service.

They remove many privacy and security control out from window 10 Pro

Microsoft removes policies from Windows 10 Pro

They only allow those in Window 10 Enterprise, which is not a subscribtion service.

Announcing New Subscription Options for Windows 10 and Surface for Businesses

They did the ground work for normal window 10 to be upgraded to subscribtion service.
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/685963/Windows-10-Microsoft-Hidden-Subscription-Plan-Operating-System

Want control? Sign this subscribtion service.

There is no magic in MGTOW, just recognition of the truth and logical decision how to avoid dangers. The red pill is but the truth, it is no magical potion. Do not think in this modern world men have no longer have natural enemies, men are prey to women and government.

[Anonymous 3]

For work I use Win 7 with a good firewall & antivirus & no updates on system, and I manually update programs. I don’t wanna work on a “self-modifying code” operating system, because my money depends on the system and my research data and private stuff and so on.

I had once Puppy Linux on my previous old Pentium 3 laptop for a long time, it was damn fast and totally useful for a private individual. Of course, most work stuff only runs on Windows, and documents written in MS office are used to fall apart when opened in Libre Office, and vice-versa. But for basic everyday stuff, Linux is okay.

I built a web-browsing little computer for my mother, that has Linux Mint. It is no point in spending $150 for a Windows installer for just web browsing and basic simple stuff. Mint has no problem with drivers at all, everything works just fine. (Long time ago Linux had problems with that, not now, most of the cases.)

There is Firefox, Libre Office, XnView, GIMP, VLC media player, Thunderbird, many video editors, and other lot of good GNU GPL freeware on Linux. Most of them exist also for Windows, I use them, because I don’t want to pay for Photoshop if I have GIMP for free, which is perfect for hobby use.

And there is Wine, that can run the simple Windows software on Linux. It is a layer, that translates Win system calls to Linux system calls.

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

i’m about to drop chrome. i guess i’ll go back to firefox. chrome updated and decided it should run on startup. went to my sysconfig and there it was and i know i didn’t click for it to run on startup. then i noticed when you close chrome, if you check task manager it’s still running. F~~~ing program is spying. I know it. google wants all your information on what you’re doing. so bye bye.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[DeltchParticipant 36]

uchibenkei wrote:

i’m about to drop chrome. i guess i’ll go back to firefox. chrome updated and decided it should run on startup. went to my sysconfig and there it was and i know i didn’t click for it to run on startup. then i noticed when you close chrome, if you check task manager it’s still running. F~~~ing program is spying. I know it. google wants all your information on what you’re doing. so bye bye.

Firefox is definitely more secure than Google Chrome. Although if you still want to use a browser similar to chrome, I would recommend Chromium because its open source.

[Y_Participant 4591]

I would suggest UNIX OpenBSD – it is still the only paranoid security concious option I know anyone could use. it is open-source and is not compromised by NSA backdoors.

https://www.openbsd.org/

Use Samba if you really need to port Win 9x 32-bit applications. (Not sure about 64-bit).
OpenOffice is just as good a workhorse if you are ok with less of the bells and whistles in MSOffice.
Firefox works fine, and there are all those GNU applications as well.

Free download.

[Anonymous 11]

The way Microsoft is rolling out untested new features on the fly with Windows 10 is not going to float well in corporate IT which values stability and reliability. I read where they are implementing the same model on Server 2016.

The 7/29 anniversary Windows 10 update has broken some things in very strange ways for me. I’m self-employed and pay taxes quarterly. My State has a really weird PDF form that you use to generate the tax payment form. I had to hack to get the form to print properly.

I will only make payments to government entities via paper checks. I got nailed once trying to make electronic tax payments. It took 1.5 years to get my penalized twice for their mistake money back. I even had a confirmation number of the timely payment. Let’s not go into my city’s botched migration to a new payment system for water and waste payment handling or the bulls~~~ alarm penalty notice where I eventually had my $100 refunded.

It’s a shame. The user interface in Windows 10 is quite good, but they are shooting themselves in the foot.

[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

Grumpy wrote:

IMHO windows 10 is good for gaming/videos only, other than that, I’m not to impressed with the intrusiveness or the heavy handed attitude of MS.

Windows has had its shady tactics since its conception. The only good windows that is still supported is windows 7 other then that they are trying to push the windows 10 s~~~ on everyone.

Just an east coast asshole who likes to curse, If you get offended by words like fuck, cunt, shit, piss, bitch or any racial slurs then you just scroll down.

[Klaus WindamierParticipant 543]

Right now i am using Windows 10 for my gaming pc and Windows XP for my working PC.

In my opinion, XP is still the best Windows OS so far.

Can you give me review about another OS that you used?

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