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Originally Posted by cromag
Yeah. My brother -- who is reasonably computer literate -- had no trouble upgrading his computer.
Then he helped Dad with the upgrade. The computer was so hosed up it wouldn't boot.
W7 does everything I need a Windows computer to do, and I have the Linux computers for most daily tasks, so I think I can wait on Windows 10.
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Up in Firefox under Ubuntu now.
There are two problems with passing on Win10 and remaining with Win7.
The first is that Win7 is out of support, and will no longer get critical security upgrades.
The second is the free offer of Win10 expires In June, I believe. If you want to upgrade without charge, you need to beat the deadline.
The first isn't a concern here. I still have a netbook running WinXP (that
can't run something later - 1.5GB RAM just won't do for Windows after XP), and an ancient notebook running Win2K (and which used to XP when I got it, and took 8 minutes to simply boot. XP needs 512MB RAM minimum. The notebook has 256MB. Win2K will run more or less acceptably.) I use a layered approach to security, beginning with "Don't use IE. Ever.", and don't care about not getting patches. None of the ones I looked at recently patched things that might bite me. The low hanging fruit has been harvested, and current patches tend to fix vulnerabilities that require hardware and/or software I don't have to exploit.
The second is a concern. I prefer to stay reasonably current, and as time passes more software will require Win8.1/Win10 to operate.
I actually like most of what Win10 brings to the table (like finally building in support for virtual desktops). I'd
love it if it ran on my desktop without issues. I'd settle if I could at least figure out what it's current problems are.
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Dennis