Posted on 02/28/2024 6:56:27 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
I still have Win7 on my Mac (in Parallels) in the unlikely event that I need to run my Windows only CAD program. I haven’t used it in years, since I filed for my last patent...
“Windows 7. Nuff said.”
The best.
“I was slow to consider Linux, but I’ll be following up with this suggestion as well.”
It is really not that hard. Get an old laptop and try Linux Mint.
Actually the Constitution is pretty specific about what money is, and FRNs are not Constitutional money.
Art 1, Section 10:
No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
Oh, and Abraham Lincoln's government gave us paper money.
“Don’t I need an ‘X’ account to use Elon’s platform ??”
X is not a personal operating system. X is not a required default concept that comes with almost all computers available whether you want it or not. X does not perpetually own YOUR computer and force you to comply to THEIR wishes and parameters.
Could that pathway be marketed and sold?
It already is. Disc imaging is usually easiest to do with a disc imaging software tool. It's used by large enough organizations that have to set up new workstations/laptops. You set up a new laptop manually, make sure it works fine, then run the disc imaging tool to make a copy (image) of the drive. Then later when you set up a new machine you copy the cloned image to the drive on the new machine and all of your company policy settings for the machine is set up.
Well duh. Elon isn’t really upset about windows. Notice he attacked Google and Microsoft but not apple? Because apple doesn’t play in AI (yet). So he’s just drumming up business for his AI GROK.
LOL.
Yep, Windows XP and 7 were the best operating systems Microsoft put out. I still run W7, though I have a W10 machine standing by. It has build 1909 on it as every build since locks up my G6/7 system board/CPU.
Windows 11 literally needs a set of tricks during the install to force it to a local account. You have to open a Command Prompt window and disable your network adapter at the right time to keep Windows from going forward with an online Microsoft account.
It is not a well known process.
As a software designer/programmer/etc I know of no one who loves Windoze in any edition. Some folks like it better than other folks, some use it as a necessity only. Windoze is overweight, slow, requires massive memory to run, and of course is highly vulnerable to bad guys. Most versions of Linux run faster in half of the RAM and with fewer hardware requirements. I have two linux systems running with 4Gb RAM which is 1/4 the recommended RAM for Windoze. And yes they use full graphical interfaces.
Most mainstream apps that run on windows also provide linux versions that run exactly the same as their Windoze variant.
I remember when my son switched from a Windoze laptop to an Apple notebook. He almost did not believe me when I told him that Apple OS was a linux variant.
Well, to be fair. Mach is based/inspired by BSD, not Linux.
Probably a more exact way to put it though. Tech evolution gets complicated.
” held on to Win7 for as long as I could because.............”
I would like to personally help anybody who was serious about making the switch.
I'm tired of my Windows OS getting raped by Microsoft every 5 weeks.
All the Windows O/S's up to Windows 7 enabled the user to control his/her experience.
Everything after that was designed for Microsoft to control and took the ability of the user to control the O/S away from them.
That's my main beef, and why I will use Windows 10 only if I absolutely have to. I got internet security software, and I only visit websites that I know to be legit. Until websites totally block a Windows 7 user I will continue to use it. It's that simple.
If I have to, I can install Linux Mint. I have used it in the past and can do so again.
And read thru 8 pages here of what this can lead to: Your pin is no longer available due to a change to the security settings on your device.
After increasing RAM and resulting in this, and trying the various suggestions, I did a reset. Thank God I had most backed up.
I am not comfortable with a monopoly.
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