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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 12:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 12:10 pm by Alex K.)
I haz dual boot. I use Linux for everything and windows for video streaming portals that insist on MS silverlight and similar nonsense.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 12:10 pm
You not up for the challenge?
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 12:11 pm
(January 22, 2015 at 12:10 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: You not up for the challenge? Not up for low quality.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 12:12 pm
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Give and take. Low quality for the game, or low quality for literally everything else you do on the computer.
Also, dual boot. Keep a partition or a hard drive for gaming. Get a laptop that supports multiple hard drives, and keep one for Windows. Ubuntu's boot loader will let you select which OS you want to boot, and boom. You don't have to deal with M$ except as the environemt to load your games.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 12:14 pm
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(January 22, 2015 at 12:12 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Give and take. Low quality for the game, or low quality for literally everything else you do on the computer. What if I told you I still prefer high quality in games?
I'm mostly concerned about video and screen quality (1080pHD) and that works using Windows. Other than that, I only use my PC to surf the web and do some work in microsoft word, nothing out of the ordinary.
A dual boot seems nice, but how much hard drive space would I need for that shit?
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 12:26 pm
So, Windows 10 is free?
What's the catch? What could possibly be up Microsofts sleeve?
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 12:28 pm
If you've got a powerful enough system, run one of them as a virtual machine. It's how I dabble with Linux when the urge to kill strikes.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 1:23 pm
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(January 22, 2015 at 12:09 pm)Alex K Wrote: I haz dual boot. I use Linux for everything and windows for video streaming portals that insist on MS silverlight and similar nonsense. I use Linux Mint as my main OS and I run VirtualBox on it. I consider Vbox a sort of "padded cell" in which to contain Windows. I feel safer this way.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 1:32 pm
From my perspective here, what really sucks is that they removed mainstream support for Windows 7 before 10 was released, leaving users with a choice to continue using an unsupported product, or switch to one that is widely considered to suck (Windows 8).
Dick move, Microsoft.
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RE: Windows 10 to be free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1
January 22, 2015 at 1:49 pm
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