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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76844689  United States09/15/2019 10:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's been on my to-do list for quite some time now. I still have Windows 7 on my main computer but wanted to check out Linux on my laptop. So far, I'm really pleased with the look and feel. I'm amazed with how many apps are available and pre-installed. I didn't need to download any drivers. For example, I have a 6 year old Toshiba laptop and the USB 3.0 slot would never work under a Windows install. I would always have to go to the Toshiba site and download the driver. Not with Linux..it worked perfectly after the fresh install. I'll keep poking around but this has some serious potential to be my main OS going forward. Installing updates now..there are quite a few of them.  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 39063030  Canada09/15/2019 11:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
sindywoow  User ID: 77982057  United Kingdom09/15/2019 11:06 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Been using it for about 5 years now. I will never go back to windows. The knowledge base is excellent. pray to Jesus Note - not in India, in the UK, English born and bred! lol Not in Belgium either, I hoped a change of ISP to Plusnet would sort it out, seems not. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 76844689 United States09/15/2019 11:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| green chi User ID: 78000506 United States09/15/2019 11:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78004590 United States09/15/2019 11:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Install KVM / QEMU as well as the VM GUI manager. Then you can run windows as a virtual machine guest. I use VMware Workstation but whatever flips your page. If you do a lot of Linux distro hopping, a virtual machine is the way to efficiently do it. One nice thing about KVM, the virtual machine runs very fast like it was installed "bare metal" as like a type 1 hypervisor rather than a type 2. Running Windows 10 instance within a virtual machine on Linux is one of convenience, no dual boot, plus, you can control and lock down Windows. You can always take a snapshot of the Windows OS and time machine it back if Microsoft borks an update. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 46316244 United States09/15/2019 11:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| h to discuss User ID: 77790123 United States09/15/2019 01:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's been on my to-do list for quite some time now. I still have Windows 7 on my main computer but wanted to check out Linux on my laptop. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76844689 So far, I'm really pleased with the look and feel. I'm amazed with how many apps are available and pre-installed. I didn't need to download any drivers. For example, I have a 6 year old Toshiba laptop and the USB 3.0 slot would never work under a Windows install. I would always have to go to the Toshiba site and download the driver. Not with Linux..it worked perfectly after the fresh install. I'll keep poking around but this has some serious potential to be my main OS going forward. Installing updates now..there are quite a few of them. YES IT IS MUCH BETTER THAN MS , DONT KNOW HOW THEY STILL SURVIVE! I AM USING LMDE Linux (LINUX MINT DEBIAN EDITION) WITH MATE DESKTOP. NUMBER! in my book! |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77913595 United States09/15/2019 02:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you are wanting to try out linux, you don't actually have to install it. There's a list of bootable cdroms, of course it runs slower that way, but you can get the idea of which one you would want to install. You can install/boot from a USB drive, from the livecd. Which runs way faster than a cdrom/DVD. Still not as fast as a HDD install. But you'll get to know how they work. [link to livecdlist.com] |
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