Wayne Boatwright writes:
On Fri 26 May 2017 06:59:29p, songbird told us...
wrote:
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I am ready to try a free alternative operating system, such as
Linux's Ubuntu.
If you use a free operating system, can you post your thumbs up
or thumbs down for it compared to Windows?
certainly give it a try.
i've been running Debian for many years and Ubuntu is
based upon Debian, but is supposedly easier to use.
there will be a learning curve, but if you have time
i consider it time well spent. i like puzzles instead
of watching tv anyways... 
i can't even remember the last time i booted my
other machine which has win98 on it, the battery has
probably died by now (it also has Debian on it).
songbird
Certainly there are alternative operating systems other than Windows.
Do I pesonally want to use them? A definite no. I don't want to
spend (waste) my time "making" something work, whereas WINDows 10
will be 100% compatible with my hardware, other software,
peripherals, all the drivers and firmware, etc. Windows 10 allows me
to USE my system rather than playing with it.
I know that all you opponents will not agree. :-)
Well, since you don't even indicate you have tried, I'm inclined
to completely ignore your opinion.
You state your Windows 10 system is completely trouble free.
I'm finding that hard to accept.
My experience with Windows is that things go wrong and
it's very difficult to understand why. I've had to re-install
the entire Windows OS more than once. I once had a failing drive
on a laptop. All I got from windows was various hangs and strange
behavior. Booted up Linux on the same machine and it showed me
disk errors.
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Dan Espen