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Originally Posted by cybmole
so the underlying QT stuff is probably OK then, which means sigil should also be good to go.
I am waiting for more info on how the "free upgrades" will work, but thinking of moving to SSD also as part of the process - for silence, not speed, I'm not fussed about stuff loading 3 microseconds faster but I do dislike HD background noises.
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Look into Terabyte Image for Linux. It's a CD-booting imaging program, very similar in operation to the old DOS-versions of Norton Ghost. You can clone your boot partition and then re-image it onto a new SSD. I've been moving programs like this for over 8 years using this program (and I'm still getting free updates... all for $24). From 1998 up to 2007, I've used the DOS-versions of Ghost, version 2003 being the last one, to switch to IFL after I got a computer on which Ghost 2003 wouldn't boot any longer.
Oh, and if you're asking: yes, a program such as IFL is also very useful to create backups of your startup partition. I've saved saved myself *many* hours during during the last 15 years, by just re-imaging computers instead of re-installing them. (Mostly other people's computers: I never need to re-install my own computers since I've been running Windows NT 4 from 1996 and later. I only re-image to an earlier version after trying a bunch of open source software packages, for example.)
Also, you'll notice that an SSD is not just "a few microseconds" faster. If your computer has enough RAM (4GB, for a not-overloaded Windows 7 installation), it positively turns an old computer into a new one.
I would NEVER willingly go back to a computer working from an HDD only. That is just for bulk storage, and installing games. The operating system and all regularly used programs are on an SSD.
And... this is an old(er) computer, which can only use the SSD at a 'limited' speed of around 250 MB/s. If this SSD had been put into a newer computer, it would run at 450 MB/s; and newer computers and SSD's are even faster.
I'm going to build a new computer shortly after Windows 10 is released. I've got an Windows 7 license (Technet), so I'll be able to instantly upgrade it to Windows 10. It will have the fastest or next-to-fastest Intel CPU of that point, 16 GB RAM (with expansion capabilities to 32 GB still open), and the then-current nVidia GTX x70 Ti card. (The successor of the GTX 970 (Ti), possibly called the 1080 or something.)
I expect that computer to blast my current one to kingdom come regarding speed, and given Windows' track record in compatibility (which has been VERY good for me, the last 15 years; everything written for Windows 95/98 still runs fine on Windows 7 x64, with a minor tweak here or there), I expect that everything that runs on Windows 8.x will also run on Windows 10.
Thus, every program I now have runs on Windows 8.x (I know this already, 100% sure), so I expect no, or only minor problems in Windows 10.