The best Linux to replace Windows
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| dba477 May 26, 2015 11:02 AM EDT |
I always install Ubuntu 14.04 as dual booting system. It replaces Windows nicely && it's free. $300 is a price of Haswell CPU. Why would I waste money ? |
| albinard May 26, 2015 11:39 AM EDT |
I just checked back on some old files: the last time I used Windows was in May 2012 when I updated the W7 that came OEM-installed on a computer I got in a back-to-school sale the previous August. I immediately dual-booted it with Xubuntu and subsequently with my distro-hop du jour, but according to my records I actually did update the W7 until I gave its partitions to other Linux installs. Can't imagine why I held on so long! Just think - if I had kept dedicating time, bandwidth, watts, and effort for three more years, I could have had a free, multi-gigabyte upgrade to Windows 10. Lucky me. |
| seatex May 26, 2015 12:01 PM EDT |
The last time I used Windows, it was Windows 7 on a media PC in my living room. But once Chrome allowed me to stream Netflix and I got the AMD HDMI audio working well on that PC under Linux, I replaced W7 with Xubuntu. |
| kikinovak May 27, 2015 4:47 PM EDT |
Last time I used Windows, XP was the next big thing. |
| penguinist May 27, 2015 5:03 PM EDT |
The last time I touched Windows was two months ago when a friend brought over his Mom's virus-laden Windows notebook asking if I could help. She had already taken it into a local shop for virus removal, but it was still in a disgusting state. Boot time was about 2 minutes, it would attach to wifi but the network performance was intolerable. Software consistency was hopelessly scrambled. She was ready to throw it in the trash can and go buy a replacement. I offered to do a fresh installation of Linux on it. A month later I saw friend's Mom at a gathering and asked how her computer was doing. She could hardly thank me enough for "fixing" it. I'm actually not even sure that she was aware that her OS had changed. She was able to browse the web and collect email in the same way as always, only now, after it was "fixed" the boot time went from 2 minutes down to 15 seconds, standby mode works again, network performance is snappy, and life is good. She was also delighted that I was able to "fix it so that she wouldn't have to worry about viruses anymore". |
| dba477 May 29, 2015 11:34 AM EDT |
There is an issue it's MS Office. Specifically Excel and PowerPoint at least via my experience. You realize that this list may be continued with several packets for Web Design, Adobe Photo Shop and so on .... All this soft doesn't go free even having analogue on Linux. The optimal solution seems to be OS "X" no viruses ( Unix Based system) |
| Steven_Rosenber May 29, 2015 1:07 PM EDT |
no words |
| gru May 29, 2015 2:10 PM EDT |
Photoshop and Office are nearly 30 year old products that have thousands of paid engineers working around the clock on new builds and feature additions and enhancements. Their products are used by millions if not billions (Office just broke 1.5 billion) of users that provide consistent feedback and bug reports for every conceivable use case. And of course, since these projects are so well funded, the companies can often afford to buy intellectual property out and merge functionality into their product, or just hire more help to ramp up production. OpenOffice/LibreOffice by comparison have had only 1058 developers committing code infrequently since their inception 16 years ago. GIMP numbers its authors in the hundreds, and was founded 19 years ago. When you focus on what FOSS hasn't accomplished yet, you miss the bigger picture of the success it has achieved with relatively limited manpower and resources available to it, and the potential it has to surpass proprietary solutions if only the user and developer mindshares would increase. |
| CFWhitman May 29, 2015 4:29 PM EDT |
The last time I used Windows at home was, I think, last year when I had to use a Windows utility to create a system SD card for some Android device. That was the only way they provided to create the disk. Of course at work I have to use Windows nearly every day for something. It's installed in a virtual machine (Windows 7). |
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