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I don't know about anyone else, but I am heartily sick of Microsoft's constant drive to take over my personal computer.
Once upon a time (maybe some members remember) Microsoft offered OS which was user friendly and not controlling.
The system allowed you to add software to play games, view videos, set-up and check email, and otherwise conduct your business on the computer you spent so much money on.
Back then when they developed something new, they OFFERED it to you.
You could accept or reject it, piecemeal.
Moreover, when they wanted to add OS options, you could accept those you wanted, and reject those you didn't.
Essentially, decide how much memory you wanted to commit to their Operating System.
Gradually, after insidiously establishing themselves as the premier (in the USA at least) OS, they began to show their true colors.
Adding more and more "stuff", taking more and more space. At first up to at least Windows 7 if I recall correctly but maybe 8, you could still say yes or no to what you wanted to add.
Sometime between Windows 7 and 9 they got rid of that capability, as well as the ability to completely reject updates. But you could still follow "geek instructions" on how to go in and get rid of things.
With Windows 10 we got screwed majorly, and now the most recent update is designed to so restrict your "control" that one may as well consider they own your system unless you purge them completely.
What's all this leading up to? A cry for HELP!
Look I mostly use my computer for four activities:
1. Playing strategy wargames,
2. Watching YouTube,
3. Participating in Forums,
4. Occasional document production.
So, what is/are the best alternative OS which can support those four while being relative safe from hacker/viruses?
I'm tired of being a slave to Microsoft
I don't know about anyone else, but I am heartily sick of Microsoft's constant drive to take over my personal computer.
Once upon a time (maybe some members remember) Microsoft offered OS which was user friendly and not controlling.
The system allowed you to add software to play games, view videos, set-up and check email, and otherwise conduct your business on the computer you spent so much money on.
Back then when they developed something new, the OFFERED it to you.
You could accept or reject it.
Moreover, when they wanted to add OS options, you could accept those you wanted, and reject those you didn't.
Essentially, decide how much memory you wanted to commit to their Operating System.
Gradually, after insidiously establishing themselves as the premier (in the USA at least) OS, they began to show their true colors.
Adding more and more "stuff", taking more and more space. At first up to at least Windows 7 if I recall correctly but maybe 8, you could still say yes or no to what you wanted to add.
Sometime between Windows 7 and 9 they got rid of that capability, as well as the ability to completely reject updates. But you could still follow "geek instructions" on how to go in and get rid of things.
With Windows 10 we got screwed majorly, and now the most recent update is designed to so restrict your "control" that one may as well consider they own your system unless you purge them completely.
What's all this leading up to? A cry for HELP!
Look I mostly use my computer for four activities:
1. Playing strategy wargames,
2. Watching YouTube,
3. Participating in Forums,
4. Occasional document production.
So, what is/are the best alternative OS which can support those four while being relative safe from hacker/viruses?
I'm tired of being a slave to Microsoft
Honestly, you've got nothing but bad options.
The only real alternatives are throwing out your PC and buying a Mac - which is expensive and also annoying, because macOS is as bad as Windows in a lot of ways, or building a linux machine, which is difficult to set up and maintain.
You could run linux on that - but it would take a very long time and a very large amount of work to set up - as well as additional work to maintain.Yeah, I was afraid that's what it might come to.
I've got an Alienware...which used to be a stand-up company...until it got bought out by Dell.
You could run linux on that - but it would take a very long time and a very large amount of work to set up - as well as additional work to maintain.
You could run linux on that - but it would take a very long time and a very large amount of work to set up - as well as additional work to maintain.
I switch to linux for six months or so but always wind up returning to windows. There's always going to be something you can't do on linux that you can do on windows.
I don't know about anyone else, but I am heartily sick of Microsoft's constant drive to take over my personal computer.
Once upon a time (maybe some members remember) Microsoft offered OS which was user friendly and not controlling.
The system allowed you to add software to play games, view videos, set-up and check email, and otherwise conduct your business on the computer you spent so much money on.
Back then when they developed something new, they OFFERED it to you.
Moreover, when they wanted to add OS options, you could accept those you wanted, and reject those you didn't.
Essentially, decide how much memory you wanted to commit to their Operating System.
Gradually, after insidiously establishing themselves as the premier (in the USA at least) OS, they began to show their true colors.
Adding more and more "stuff", taking more and more space. At first up to at least Windows 7 if I recall correctly but maybe 8, you could still say yes or no to what they wanted to add.
Sometime between Windows 7 and 9 they got rid of that capability, as well as the ability to completely reject updates. But you could still follow "geek instructions" on how to go in and get rid of things.
With Windows 10 we got screwed majorly, and now the most recent update is designed to so restrict your "control" that one may as well consider they own your system unless you purge them completely.
What's all this leading up to? A cry for HELP!
Look; I mostly use my computer for four activities:
1. Playing strategy wargames,
2. Watching YouTube,
3. Participating in Forums,
4. Occasional document production.
So, what is/are the best alternative OS which can support those four while being relatively safe from hacker/viruses?
I'm tired of being a slave to Microsoft
What are some of the recurring problems?
From my experience - and I will admit its been a while since I spent much time using a linux machine, although not so long ago as 2005 - the issues would come up when significant changes needed to be made on the system - hardware upgrades, installation of peripheral drivers, etc.balderdash, i use linux regularly and it takes just as much work as windows (I am an professional in both). This isn't 2005 and linux is much better.
A lot of it is you can't get newer games to run. You run them on wine but wine is always a little behind windows.
Sometimes your browser or another program will start erring out and you can't fix it.
Or you'll update the system and something will break.
I don't know about anyone else, but I am heartily sick of Microsoft's constant drive to take over my personal computer.
Once upon a time (maybe some members remember) Microsoft offered OS which was user friendly and not controlling.
The system allowed you to add software to play games, view videos, set-up and check email, and otherwise conduct your business on the computer you spent so much money on.
Back then when they developed something new, they OFFERED it to you.
Moreover, when they wanted to add OS options, you could accept those you wanted, and reject those you didn't.
Essentially, decide how much memory you wanted to commit to their Operating System.
Gradually, after insidiously establishing themselves as the premier (in the USA at least) OS, they began to show their true colors.
Adding more and more "stuff", taking more and more space. At first up to at least Windows 7 if I recall correctly but maybe 8, you could still say yes or no to what they wanted to add.
Sometime between Windows 7 and 9 they got rid of that capability, as well as the ability to completely reject updates. But you could still follow "geek instructions" on how to go in and get rid of things.
With Windows 10 we got screwed majorly, and now the most recent update is designed to so restrict your "control" that one may as well consider they own your system unless you purge them completely.
What's all this leading up to? A cry for HELP!
Look; I mostly use my computer for four activities:
1. Playing strategy wargames,
2. Watching YouTube,
3. Participating in Forums,
4. Occasional document production.
So, what is/are the best alternative OS which can support those four while being relatively safe from hacker/viruses?
I'm tired of being a slave to Microsoft
From my experience - and I will admit its been a while since I spent much time using a linux machine, although not so long ago as 2005 - the issues would come up when significant changes needed to be made on the system - hardware upgrades, installation of peripheral drivers, etc.
Adding them to the platform? Stability? What?
I'm not clear on what your beef is.
1. You don't HAVE to use Edge. (But you should give it a try. It's a pretty good browser.) I, myself, use five different browsers...Edge being one of them...for different purposes.
2. I've been using Windows since Win95. I don't ever remember having the option to only install specific items when a major update came out. For example, IE was always a part of every new Win OS (until Edge came along)...you just never had to use it if you didn't want to.
3. btw, there was no Win9.
4. If available memory or storage space is your problem, you should probably think about upgrading your computer (if possible). It's getting long in the tooth.
I'm not clear on what your beef is.
1. You don't HAVE to use Edge. (But you should give it a try. It's a pretty good browser.) I, myself, use five different browsers...Edge being one of them...for different purposes.
2. I've been using Windows since Win95. I don't ever remember having the option to only install specific items when a major update came out. For example, IE was always a part of every new Win OS (until Edge came along)...you just never had to use it if you didn't want to.
3. btw, there was no Win9.
4. If available memory or storage space is your problem, you should probably think about upgrading your computer (if possible). It's getting long in the tooth.
I don't know about that, I seem to recall trying to use a different browser back in the day and one of Microsoft's updates just wrote over it.
Well I do. When an upgrade alert came in you could go to see what the upgrade contained, and aside from security add-ons you could accept or reject things.
My beef is, I want to use a browser like DuckDuckGo, which I did prior to this "update."
The update gives you an option to "select it" but then uses some other setup with a weird symbol like a Celtic lower case "b."
Now the duckduckgo window is not the main screen, and you have to go up and type in the (whatever that https bar is).
As to item #4, part of the problem has been that Microsoft seems to just add on more data for their OS...without housecleaning. Like building on prior foundations.
I have over 9 gigs of memory. But I've had to upgrade several times to this point, and it isn't because of things I am loading onto my system.
I don't know about anyone else, but I am heartily sick of Microsoft's constant drive to take over my personal computer.
Once upon a time (maybe some members remember) Microsoft offered OS which was user friendly and not controlling.
The system allowed you to add software to play games, view videos, set-up and check email, and otherwise conduct your business on the computer you spent so much money on.
Back then when they developed something new, they OFFERED it to you.
Moreover, when they wanted to add OS options, you could accept those you wanted, and reject those you didn't.
Essentially, decide how much memory you wanted to commit to their Operating System.
Gradually, after insidiously establishing themselves as the premier (in the USA at least) OS, they began to show their true colors.
Adding more and more "stuff", taking more and more space. At first up to at least Windows 7 if I recall correctly but maybe 8, you could still say yes or no to what they wanted to add.
Sometime between Windows 7 and 9 they got rid of that capability, as well as the ability to completely reject updates. But you could still follow "geek instructions" on how to go in and get rid of things.
With Windows 10 we got screwed majorly, and now the most recent update is designed to so restrict your "control" that one may as well consider they own your system unless you purge them completely.
What's all this leading up to? A cry for HELP!
Look; I mostly use my computer for four activities:
1. Playing strategy wargames,
2. Watching YouTube,
3. Participating in Forums,
4. Occasional document production.
So, what is/are the best alternative OS which can support those four while being relatively safe from hacker/viruses?
I'm tired of being a slave to Microsoft
From my experience - and I will admit its been a while since I spent much time using a linux machine, although not so long ago as 2005 - the issues would come up when significant changes needed to be made on the system - hardware upgrades, installation of peripheral drivers, etc.
My beef is, I want to use a browser like DuckDuckGo, which I did prior to this "update."
The update gives you an option to "select it" but then uses some other setup with a weird symbol like a Celtic lower case "b."
Now the duckduckgo window is not the main screen, and you have to go up and type in the (whatever that https bar is).
As to item #4, part of the problem has been that Microsoft seems to just add on more data for their OS...without housecleaning. Like building on prior foundations.
I have over 9 gigs of memory. But I've had to upgrade several times to this point, and it isn't because of things I am loading onto my system.
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