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Fucking Windows 8/8.1
#31
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
Have to enter in my password? Like for my user account? Like normal? Lol.
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#32
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
Thing is for Linux Mint I still need a Windows install disc in case I need to revert.
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#33
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
(July 7, 2016 at 6:07 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Cinnamon is a Fedora port, whereas it was developed for Mint. Might try installing Mint instead of Fedora... Tongue

I know it's a fedora port...
But I can't do away with Fedora that easily... like I said, it's compatible with everything else running at work (everything that isn't windows!)
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#34
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
(July 7, 2016 at 6:09 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Thing is for Linux Mint I still need a Windows install disc in case I need to revert.

Not... necessarily...
When you install linux, you can make it so that you have a dual boot, that is, you can either boot into windows or linux.
Actually, you can multi-boot - boot into any number of linuxes or windows... it's only limited by your hard drive capacity for multiple OSs.

Sorry about forgetting to mention this option earlier.
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#35
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
(July 7, 2016 at 6:07 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Have to enter in my password? Like for my user account? Like normal? Lol.

And to install software, and to get admin privileges inside certain folders, to do any sudo commands, coming out of sleep, coming out of screensaver.

Some of those you can turn off, but Linux has safeguards so you don't fuck up any important files.
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#36
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
Sounds good to me. I password all that anyway.

I'd love to do multiboot. Gonna do this Windows 10 plan first though because I only had until the 29th to get it for free... if it fails I'll dual boot with Linux Mint.

One more question

If I keep Windows 8 and use dual boot, and just use Linux... will Windows 8 as the other optional boot in the background force me to do updates after I switch off my computer? Or can I just act like Windows doesn't exist and not worry about Windows Updates ever again and just have it as an option to boot to if I ever run into problems with Linux?
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#37
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
Hammy, there's a chance something will fuck it all up.
Make sure you are happy to lose anything on the hard disk just in case.

Does your current notebook have the secret reinstall partition? You may lose that also.
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#38
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
Now I go fucking Windows, to earn an honest bob
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#39
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
LOLWUT
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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#40
RE: Fucking Windows 8/8.1
(July 7, 2016 at 6:15 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Sounds good to me. I password all that anyway.

I'd love to do multiboot. Gonna do this Windows 10 plan first though because I only had until the 29th to get it for free... if it fails I'll dual boot with Linux Mint.

One more question

If I keep Windows 8 and use dual boot, and just use Linux... will Windows 8 as the other optional boot in the background force me to do updates after I switch off my computer? Or can I just act like Windows doesn't exist and not worry about Windows Updates ever again and just have it as an option to boot to if I ever run into problems with Linux?

In the dual-boot option, when you boot into one of the OSs, the other is as if it's not there, except that it's taking up hard disk space.
If you just use linux, windows will not be in use, will not run any updates, will not run.
The down side is... when you do boot into windows, it will try to do ALL the updates that it didn't get a chance to do at the correct time... from Windows' POV, it's like you left the computer off all that time.
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