Lets put windows 10 on diet.

The_Donkey said:
This reminds me. A friend of mine asked me to install Windows 10 on a 10" Netbook.

I have Windows 10, what I don't have is a flashdrive. Any alternative ways to install it? Or am I forced to go buy one?
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Some netbooks have IA-32 architecture. It may be best to check on this first if you only have a 64 bit version of W10.

There are still some good 32 bit versions of Linux :).
 
chrisc said:
Abandon the task
Try Linux Mint instead. As pretty and a fraction of the size
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Funny you should say that, I did just that a month ago and other than for a few hiccups the experience has been much happier than win10.... though I also have stopped playing games younger than 10 years since then.

Even on a HDD that is literally slower than my win10 HDD and everything including the kitchen sink installed and running it's just FESTUH.

I'm just glad nvidia managed to fix almost all the problems their drivers gave a few years ago.
 
rambo919 said:
Funny you should say that, I did just that a month ago and other than for a few hiccups the experience has been much happier than win10.... though I also have stopped playing games younger than 10 years since then.

Even on a HDD that is literally slower than my win10 HDD and everything including the kitchen sink installed and running it's just FESTUH.

I'm just glad nvidia managed to fix almost all the problems their drivers gave a few years ago.
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I've run Linux for a few years, but there are some annoyances like if your sound chip isn't 100% supported you don't get external mics, changing refresh rates aren't easy either.
 
The_Donkey said:
Just thought of something else. The other day I bought a 64GB memory card for one of my Pi's (it only has 16GB).

And as luck would have it, this netbook has a card slot. Let me see if I can do it that way.

Otherwise, eish. That would mean I have to waste R80 because nobody uses flashdrives anymore - at least I don't
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Firstly beware that many to most devices do not support booting from memory cards..... I tried.

Secondly...... you don't use flashdrives any more? You got THAT addicted to the cloud?
 
Lupus said:
I've run Linux for a few years, but there are some annoyances like if your sound chip isn't 100% supported you don't get external mics, changing refresh rates aren't easy either.
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ATM I have a problem where my 7.1 audio is detected as a stereo chipset..... there is a way around it but I have yet to get the motivation to properly testing HDAJackRetask again after my first attempt.

My biggest remaining annoyance is that the system does not inform you when you have ACTUALLY stopped transferring files to a flashdrive.... you have to wait for 5-10min afterwards and only then eject..... how does it make sense to allow an eject when a transfer is still happening in the background? And external HDD's are not spun down after transfers I have noticed.
 
rambo919 said:
ATM I have a problem where my 7.1 audio is detected as a stereo chipset..... there is a way around it but I have yet to get the motivation to properly testing HDAJackRetask again after my first attempt.

My biggest remaining annoyance is that the system does not inform you when you have ACTUALLY stopped transferring files to a flashdrive.... you have to wait for 5-10min afterwards and only then eject..... how does it make sense to allow an eject when a transfer is still happening in the background? And external HDD's are not spun down after transfers I have noticed.
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yeah this is most definitely your hardware and DE's file management at fault here, while the audio issue is understandable given the current state of things (I personally despise how KDE handles pulseaudio-pacmd), I've never had an issue with transferring files to flash drives (system-tool copies and gnome properly halt their progress bars before completing and eject successfully when done) and the harddrive spinning down sounds really odd, I remember very old WDs I used to have never doing this even on Windows, but these days the drive controllers take care of that when there's no activity and when ejected so I can't comment there, I wouldn't blame the OS in this scenario though but maybe you can expand on that part to understand your issue better.
 
Crumbl0x said:
yeah this is most definitely your hardware and DE's file management at fault here, while the audio issue is understandable given the current state of things (I personally despise how KDE handles pulseaudio-pacmd), I've never had an issue with transferring files to flash drives (system-tool copies and gnome properly halt their progress bars before completing and eject successfully when done) and the harddrive spinning down sounds really odd, I remember very old WDs I used to have never doing this even on Windows, but these days the drive controllers take care of that when there's no activity and when ejected so I can't comment there, I wouldn't blame the OS in this scenario though but maybe you can expand on that part to understand your issue better.
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I've even tried Ubuntu with gnome and still the same issue with sound :(
 
Crumbl0x said:
yeah this is most definitely your hardware and DE's file management at fault here, while the audio issue is understandable given the current state of things (I personally despise how KDE handles pulseaudio-pacmd), I've never had an issue with transferring files to flash drives (system-tool copies and gnome properly halt their progress bars before completing and eject successfully when done) and the harddrive spinning down sounds really odd, I remember very old WDs I used to have never doing this even on Windows, but these days the drive controllers take care of that when there's no activity and when ejected so I can't comment there, I wouldn't blame the OS in this scenario though but maybe you can expand on that part to understand your issue better.
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LM 20 Cinnamon.

I would prefer to use ultracopier but there is no compatibility yet and I struggle to actually find a list of compatible file managers.
 
chrisc said:
Abandon the task
Try Linux Mint instead. As pretty and a fraction of the size
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...of course. Because the uptake for Mint vs. Windows is so great, companies are flocking to replace Windows with it.
In a corporate environment, it will never happen en-masse. Microsoft licensing price breaks and all.
 
B-1 said:
From my experience its not a once off deal. It will reinstall bloat without your permission with every update.
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That's why the first thing you install is WinUpdatesDisabler.
 
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