No, Mac is best!
No, Linux is best!
Posted on 02/03/2016 11:22:43 AM PST by dennisw
If so supporting Win7 to 2020 is pointless.
After 30 year of working on ever-changing, never-reliable Windows X.X, absolutely. Another good one is Ubuntu.
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No, Mac is best!
No, Linux is best!
That is the Achilles heel of Linux... games
Linux is great for people who don’t have to do serious work on a computer.
Figure you may have something to add to this conversation.
How do you install Mint to create a dual boot system with already installed VistaHP64 and not mess up Vista or lose files???
Can you provide step-by-step?
Same garbage, different day, year, and decade.
Linux desktop is a solution for a small percentage of people. That’s reflected in the market share.
Linux is free and people know about it. There’s no need for these articles every couple of months.
I run Mint 17.3 as a VM on my work laptop. They won’t let me install it on bare metal, so I fire up a VM and work from there. I’ve been a Fedora user for a long time on my main desktop box, but I’m inching closer to just installing Mint every day. Of course, I’ve been saying that for a couple of years now. I prefer ‘yum’ instead of ‘apt’ for package management, mostly because I’ve just been using it for so long now.
Don't you mean "Windows is great for people who want to play games on their computer"?
On these threads, the most common complaint about linux is "it doesn't run my favorite game".
Judging from that, it seems that windows is for people who have toys, whereas Linux has more serious uses.
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I have Windows 7. A few days ago I uninstalled a program and after the pc restarted I saw the error below. In a search using my other pc I found the error was common going back several years for other programs then the one I had so I knew this was a Windows problem.
I could not get into the bios nor would the cd drive work. I push in the CMOS reset button on the motherboard which allowed me into the bios. The cd drive worked too. The Windows 7 cd Repair said that this version was not compatible with the OS I had installed. I had used the cd for the initial install...... The Hirens repair cd I had has a light version of XP on it and after it started up I could see my files. I used another program to try to repair the boot record but that was not the fix either.
The fix was to install Windows 7 on a empty drive I had and then run chkdsk /f /r e:
This allowed me access to all my files but a few. Some photos I have tried to open do not. It looks like most of the files are there. Thunderbird mail and Firefox bookmarks were not there until I ran the chkdsk fix.
TIP: ALWAYS have a backup. I had 2. One was a Windows 7 backup of my system about 1 month ago and the other using TODO EaseOS to backup and do incremental backups. WHEW! Almost lost everything!
Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
Choose your language settings, and then click “Next.”
Click “repair your computer.”
If you don’t have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
mint will run you through it. during the install, easy.
I run mint with win 7 duel boot. I have either mint or ubuntu
on all our pc’s .
yes you can run c o d.
“That is the Achilles heel of Linux... games”
Ever heard of valve or steam?
Not sure about Vista, haven’t used Vista since 2009. Here is how to do it on Windows 10:
Installing Ubuntu/Linux Mint on UEFI System with Windows 8/8.1/10
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/62886-Installing-Ubuntu-Linux-Mint-on-UEFI-System-with-Windows-8-8-1-10
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please, keep your apples to yourself, and the other 4 people that use them.
My problem with Linux has always been installing hardware. I haven’t tried it in several years...have they improved that to the level of Windows or OSX?
Don’t start with that “open the terminal and enter...” crap. If you have to type command lines to do anything, it ain’t ready for prime time.
Probably not. There is software called WINE that can run some Windows software, but the vast majority of the time you're better off choosing a Linux equivalent than trying to make Windows software work.
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