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Just buy Start10 for $3 and it's the same as 7: https://www.stardock.com/products/start10/
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Windows 7 users are taking their time upgrading to Windows 10
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Edge was always a decent browser though. The only major issue at launch was the lack of extensions. That hasn't been a problem for a very long time now, and Chromium Edge supports Chrome extensions.
Even MS craps on IE, formally labelling it a compatibility tool rather than a web browser.
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I must say I am very happy with Ubuntu and I really dont use terminal that much. It just worked on my laptop, no driver issues at all. I actually managed to get my mobile broadband to work, which I couldn't do when it was still running Win7.
That all being said, I have been using *nix systems onn and off since I downloaded Suse 9.2 using the telkom R7 call deal maaaaany moons ago.
LOL
Some of those links go back to Dec 2018 but I doubt that will convince you.
Install virtualbox and then install win7 in the vm like I just did, the font rendering is miles apart.
Zoomzoom
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which is precisely the problem with windows updates - update here and crash something over there. then you try to fix the crash, which either can't be fixed (no update) or causes something else to have a conflict in its knickers and stop working properly. Annoying as all hell.
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In afrikaans we call this "spoeg en plak".
Ive been part of the Windows insider program since win 10 beta, running it on my gaming pc at home. Ive seen some epic fails, but hey I get to run a legal version of win 10 for free.
ArmatageShanks
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Lucky you, I have always has some issues, but mostly things worked.
Johnatan56
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Actually yesterday I had W7 and W10 hooked up to the same 900p 27" monitor, switching back and forth, W10 was just as sharp for system and sharper for the same applications. (W7 had DVI and W10 a USB to VGA so it had a worse connector, plus W10 it was the secondary display while W7 it was the only one)
It really was a case of most applications just having to support the new Window scaling API properly, if you're looking at 720p or something, run clear type, windows 10 is fine.
Geoff.D
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Apologies zoom zoom will get to your question. The above post illustrates just how subjective some so called "issues" can be. Pure imagination based on problems that existed years ago maybe. Many so called OS issues are really app and other software issues.
Yes there have been some rather spectacular fails in some of the things done but then that is the benefit of the insider program, precisely to expose them.
It is genuinely a long time since a production version has failed .
I looked up the rendering complaint and came up with nothing of note. Nothing fundamental that was not specifically related to displays and monitors and the failure of those suppliers to timeously do something about their drivers.
Yes there have been some rather spectacular fails in some of the things done but then that is the benefit of the insider program, precisely to expose them.
It is genuinely a long time since a production version has failed .
I looked up the rendering complaint and came up with nothing of note. Nothing fundamental that was not specifically related to displays and monitors and the failure of those suppliers to timeously do something about their drivers.
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Let me guess, you spent half a day trying to install Ubuntu in 2005, couldn't get any decent software running once you did, and haven't bothered with Linux since?
Geoff.D
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Again this illustrates how subjective we all can be at times. I had a go at Linux once. Long ago. Had to for a very specific reason. Was very glad when I finished that project. I have not tried since. I could easily now years later just write off Linux.
That's an amazingly common misconception, I used LM for 2-3 years (v17-18) and had a lot of irritations, been waiting for v19 to mature to 19.2 before trying again now, the samba and wine problems they have been having with 19 is actually ironic but squarely Ubuntu/Debian's original faults in various ways.
Funnily enough my most aggravating irritation at one point was the audacity aif bug..... which like many other small Debian bugs is probably still unpatched, will have to see when 19.2 comes out..... proof perfect that the "holy repo's" are far from perfect.
Sl8er
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You're doing yourself a disservice by not trying the new stuff.
(Try something like Mint or the latest Zorin or MX-Linux)
I'm using PopOS at the moment...and once I got the hang of how the workflow is supposed to work -using the keyboard shortcuts and stuff- it's actually pretty awesome
I also "dabbled" a bit back in the day and had pretty much the same viewpoint as you...until a couple of years ago.
Started "meddling" there again -just "because".
End of last year I made the switch permanently...it's "tough" using a windows machine these days. It feels...janky now -for lack of a better word.
(It's hard to explain...you gotta experience it for yourself, I guess.)
Of course, this is all pointless if you absolutely require software that only runs on windows.
But as of recently, I'm one of those "Yeah! Fck Windows! Linux FTW!" guys
In some ways using Windows compared to Linux is using the computer with gloves on and one hand tied behind your back..... everything takes so much longer and you get told what you want. However Windows makes up for this by mostly properly automating many things..... with win10 it lost many of it's marbles though and none of the dev teams can seem to agree on which bag to use..... that's what happens when the leadership takes orders from shareholders.
The chief strengths of each OS ecosystem are also their chief weaknesses.
It's not my fscking imagination, you guys need to have your eyes checked if you cannot see any difference.
Let me help you out with some blown up pixels from the windows file manager for example, 1920x1080 resolution on a 1920x1080 panel, display is calibrated, cleartype enabled & tuned, smooth edges of screen fonts enabled.
Win10 grayscale font antialising,
Win7 rgb font antialising,
Grayscale results in worse looking fonts period.
http://alienryderflex.com/sub_pixel/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
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Yeah I'm done here.
Zoomzoom
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yes but the problem starts when you do an update on a machine where everything was happy and talking properly to each other with no issues. Then suddenly this one doesn't know that one any more, and windows is flashing warning messages at you, and explorer gets a pain in its bum and shuts down and, and, and ... so I blame windows as being instigating factor that sets off this chain reaction of calamities.