I will be taking in this old computer in to have all my files and libraries and browsers transferred to a much newer used lap top computer and will be upgrading to Win 10 as I am on Win 7 and the browsers and much newer websites and programs give me hell for being a Luddite. So treat this as a open forum and give me your best shot and best gripes and whiny complaints and uplifting kudos and such… just remember, I hold a set a keys…
Bustednuckles
Documenting The Death Of America
Never a complaint about your blog. If you ever get to the eastern part of PA north of Phila,, I’d buy you a coffee or a beer.
Buy me a coffee and a beer? ya got a deal! My dear departed Sainted mother was form Cannonsburg, south and a little west of Pittsburg…
What, are you going to drink both at the same time?
I yam a two fisted drinker I yam…
You do realize that Windows 10 is also going to be unsupported in the near future also. Microsoft has been pushing 11 now for quite some time.
Go Linux. It is free and many versions are well supported. Best of all, Bill Gates doesn’t get a penny from it and can’t spy on you from it.
I was dragged kicking and screaming when I had to upgrade from XP to Win 7( I terribly miss XP)… I am just being dragged to Win 10. Linux I tried before but was clunky and hard for me to use and didn’t set up like XP or Win 7 with the navigation and tool boards that I enjoy using. If a version of Linux can emulate like a XP or 7 screen and as easy to use or learn. I was a bastard nurse, not an electrical engineer or computer geek…
I still have XP running in a virtual machine here at home, though my need for it has long since gone away. I had to maintain some files in Word, and, at the time, I could get XP and MS Office.
I have Win7 on a laptop here, and I don’t plan on upgrading. At least for now, the programs I use it for still work, but I figure at some point, they’ll get new versions I need and don’t run on the old system any longer. I’ve never tried Win10, but based on the screenshots I’ve seen, I’m destined to hate it. I’m a little tempted to pick up a Win10 box now, while they’re still available, just so I can forestall ending up on Win11 later.
I’ve noticed Brave no longer updates Win 7. Oh well, hasn’t affected me at all so far.
(but I don’t do the Geeky shit like some here)
Unless you are use to command line, Linux may not be for you since that’s where the real power of Linux resides.
Windows 10 has been pretty damn stable…the most stable since XP.
That’s a really old situation. Hasn’t applied for years, particularly for people who install a distribution based on Ubuntu, of which there are many.
IMHO, the biggest issue with switching to Linux these days is choosing from among the many options for a desktop environment. However, for CederQ, I’d recommend going with either Ubuntu or Mint, with the MATE option. It’ll feel reasonably comfortable to a user of the old Windoze systems.
I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver since 1998. Yeah, I used to work in IT, so for me, it was just cool and easy. But I’ve seen the changes over time. I’m not a fan of all of them, but I have to admit that it’s pretty easy these days, and things just work.
I use several distributions as well, including Kali (very frequently), and while they have become better in the GUI areas, their real power still resides in the command line structure.
Good Sir. Get him to give you a copy of your data (and profile) on a USB data stick.
I do this for a living.
I’m still on Win 7 and have suffered years of ridicule, so you’re in good company.
Fuck em.
Yep, only shit after 7. Became an apple man after that may not work for you but the speed at which Gates programs would slow down with updates was less than a year. My first Mac mini was replaced in the last couple a months, being years old and never noticed any slowdown. Version updates expired due to older tech so got me another one. Love the Mac laptops as well.
Nothing to report here other than ran, maybe some tornado’s good times. Warm and sunny tomorrow. Out there? Don’t even ask.
Say, so how cold was it in Europe after all the doom porn gonna freeze in the winter. Meh. Well, how goes it in Ukraine? meh. What about those balloons, wasn’t there something about a birthday party or sumpin? meh. Anybody seen any of that J6 video’s? meh. Saw the other day another arkancide chalked up for the clit owns, meh. I just hope those nuke operators in Minot are not replaced with yes men, meh.
I am hungry and in need of entertainment but man cannot live on bread and circuses alone.
rain not ran Siri, dammit
Is Siri your wife?
Sounds like it huh?
Some times that’s why I say dammit to her.
I’ll send you some of my good luck. I’ve had a surplus lately. Just plugged in the new power supply for my main computer that died last Saturday. Got the new one FedEx today, hooked it all up, and a small miracle occurred: it booted right up! Nothing smoking either!
Yeah. That is a great feeling.
Congrat’s Greg.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
When I was repairing the original PCs and clones, the Power Supplies we used to get would lose the +5VDC, which (due to the cheap design) would cause the +12 to go to about +25VDC and fry the floppies and the HDDs. Pissed off a LOT of users/customers when I told ’em what got damaged, I shipped off a LOT of HDDs to Seattle to have a firm pull the data off the platters because the accounting data was VALUABLE!
Newer and current designs have a “crowbar” circuit that will blow the fuse(s) if things go 5% out of tolerance. Funny what customers howling at the manufacturer will get things changed…
Boy, I could easily bore y’all to death with some of the hardware I had to fix. Tons and tons of horror stories!!
What was my main PC has been moved to “Media” status. It is running Windows 7 Professional. I absolutely love 7, almost as much as I did XP. I fought the switch from XP almost as much as switch away from 7.
Personally, I HATE Windows 10 – for a multitude of reasons.
As much as I didn’t want to, my new machine runs on Windows 11 Professional. While it isn’t 7, it is far and away better than 10. This PC is fast as hell. For what I paid for the parts, it should be. Costs more than I paid for the Taurus. Power on, type in password, to desktop – in roughly 15 seconds.
My personal opinion would be to forego W10 entirely and install W11. It isn’t W7, but I am warming up to it.
As for my non-Windows recommendation, I’ve had good luck with Xunbuntu. It is a light weight OS that has most of the modern functionality of commercial product, without the bloat.
https://xubuntu.org/
I’ve also used Unbuntu live ISO discs for cleaning out the monitoring programs installed by different IT providers. Their spyware and blocking programs can’t defend themselves outside of a Windows environment. I’ve also used the live disc to circumvent their content filtering programs, as well.
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Sounds as if you’re a good candidate for using Kali Linux. It’s built from the ground up for “digital forensics”. Haven’t tried it myself, since I’m not a security weenie.
Regarding that win11 install, just remember to get the pro edition, not the home. Home edition comes with a thing called s-mode. MS decides everything that you can do with it, so forget firefox browser.
There is a way to defeat it, but involves wondering around in the registry editor, dont go there unless you have done it before.
I needed a new cheap laptop with windows to do my taxes, win7 just wont cut it anymore, so I got a cheap win11 and edited the s-mode out.
My linux on my other computer wont support any tax software, but now, after the purchase, I discover the the newer versions of linux support a feature called wine, and that is supposed to offer windows features that the tax software can operate on.
I will agree that win11 is wildly fast, no hesitation at all.
daddy-o
Hope the transfer goes smoothly and without incident. Decidedly not a computer techie here so I have nothing else to offer but my well wishes.