On Sat, 27 May 2017 12:50:42 -0400, Dan Espen
wrote:

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.
I have to re-install windows to solve a problem in well over 8
years. It's been a coon's age since I've had windows lock up on a
machine that meets the compatability requirements for the version of
windows being run. I've got Win10Pro running on an itty-bitty Acer
Asipre One - the low powered atom verion. It hangs occaisionally, but
it barely ran XP, and I'm sure it would be pretty limited on Linux as
well.

Playing with 10 on it is as far as I want to go with "playing"

If I want to "play" with "alternative OS" I can pull out my old
Rat-Shack CoCo and plat with the old OS9 6809 multi-tasking OS.