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BIOS problem helpmeplz
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 12:29 pm
Oooooohhh.... a Microsoft bashing thread! Big Grin
Did you guys know that win7 is actually, win 6.1, where Vista was 6.0...
And win8 is 6.2... win8.1 is 6.3... arghhh! you get the picture.... it's all the same thing with slightly different skins.
My home PC came clean and I put XP on it.... worked well enough, but then I just had to try Vista.
Vista worked equally well, so I just let it stay.
About 2 years after win7 entered the scene, I managed to come across a legit win7 DVD with key and all... so I installed that one. Worked just as well.
Haven't ventured into win8 yet, since the hardware is getting a bit old, but I don't anticipate much trouble.
Oh, I lie... When I got an SSD for my laptop, I put win8.1 in it and it failed to get proper drivers for the touchpad and the webcam was upside down (and the usual tricks to get it back straight didn't work), so I went back to win7. Apart from missing drivers (or drivers that refused to install because "oh no, these drivers are not for this version of windows!" -.-'), it worked well enough.

Back in the day, I had a Pentium III with win98SE... at some point, it started giving explorer.exe errors every 5 minutes or so, so I decided to try the new kid on the block, WinME. Apart from not having a native dedicated command line, it worked well enough.... better than 98SE, as it didn't have explorer errors.

I am possibly one of the few people who have no complaints regarding winME and WinVista... and I count myself among the tech savvy ones...
I don't know why they just worked well, for me... Maybe it has to do with the way I obsessively tweak the OS options to do things the way I want, instead of relying on default settings...
Or maybe it has to do with the usage of Netscape, instead of IE... oh, it changed name into Firefox along the way...
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 12:36 pm
poc, Linux would make you cry it's so much better. Any distro. And you can make almost any change you want to it to make it look/feel/work how you like it.

Also...
Code:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
That's how you install the new releases.

I cannot explain how much better life is without Microsoft.
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 12:39 pm
(January 21, 2015 at 12:36 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: poc, Linux would make you cry it's so much better. Any distro. And you can make almost any change you want to it to make it look/feel/work how you like it.

Also...
Code:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
That's how you install the new releases.

I cannot explain how much better life is without Microsoft.

Sure, as long as you're willing to tolerate WINE every fucking time you want to play a game. Tongue
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 1:29 pm
This is true. I am not a PC gamer, so this doesn't affect me very much. The only issue for me is that I had to buy a new printer because my Lexmark from 1999 wasn't compatible. Also, using Chromium instead of Chrome very rarely pops up some compatibility issues. (Most recently TurboTax...)

I know a lot of people that have a small partition with some form of Windows on it in order to boot up to play games and that's it. Dual booting is built into Ubuntu's installation options. It's pretty easy to set up.
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 1:34 pm
If I were setting up a small office from scratch, I'd go Linux all the way. Probably one of the Ubuntu distros. It would be the most robust, customizable network, with next to zero malware problems or OS glitches.

But for the average idiot on a home PC, Win7 is the way to go. And for the wealthier idiot, nothing beats Mac's OSX and up - which is actually a proprietary Linux distro with a ton of Windoze support built right in.
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 2:44 pm
(January 21, 2015 at 1:34 pm)Davka Wrote: nothing beats Mac's OSX and up - which is actually a proprietary Linux distro

Not Linux, Unix.
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 2:48 pm
(January 21, 2015 at 2:44 pm)pocaracas Wrote:
(January 21, 2015 at 1:34 pm)Davka Wrote: nothing beats Mac's OSX and up - which is actually a proprietary Linux distro

Not Linux, Unix.

My bad - *nix.
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 2:52 pm
(January 21, 2015 at 12:29 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Did you guys know that win7 is actually, win 6.1, where Vista was 6.0...
And win8 is 6.2... win8.1 is 6.3... arghhh! you get the picture.... it's all the same thing with slightly different skins.

Well... yes and no.

For example, Windows 7 uses a NT 6.1 *kernel*, but the kernel isn't windows. It's the whole release build - kernel + userspace.

kernel version != operating system version

This is much the same as the "machine" I'm on now runs Mint 17.1 in a virtual machine, but the kernel is Linux 3.13.0.
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 2:52 pm
(January 21, 2015 at 2:44 pm)pocaracas Wrote:
(January 21, 2015 at 1:34 pm)Davka Wrote: nothing beats Mac's OSX and up - which is actually a proprietary Linux distro

Not Linux, Unix.

Not Unix, BSD.

:p
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RE: BIOS problem helpmeplz
January 21, 2015 at 4:30 pm
Windows 10 is coming.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/21/technology/windows-10/
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