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Originally Posted by rcentros
I'll do that once I get the 3 or the (original) Plus. Still haven't made the final decision.
Kobo is one option, but I would like to have more. I'm not that thrilled with Kobo's bookstore, the Nook store seems "cleaner."
My wife's laptop runs Windows 10. It's an HP (supposedly a "gamer" laptop, but game players would laugh at it). I bought it because it came with an i7 CPU and has decent specs. It has two video chips (an Intel and a nVidia) and it's supposed to hand off to the nVidia when doing graphic intensive operations (playing games, I guess). My wife really doesn't need the nVidia chip, but it worked as advertised when we first got the laptop. But after the very first Windows upgrade, my wife started getting BSODs over and over again. I finally figured out that if I disabled the nVidia chip it mostly worked. I think it probably needs an updated driver, but something in Windows 10 (HP OEM) says that it has the newest driver and won't let me upgrade. At any rate, disable the nVidia chip ... and do it again EVERY TIME Windows upgrades because somebody at Microsoft decides I NEED that nVidia chip enabled. I've been personally using Linux exclusively for about 12 to 13 years now. It's clean, fast and easy to maintain. I would go nuts if I had to go back to Windows now.
The Windows 10 Pro on my wife's desktop is, for the most part, much more solid. I built that one and installed Windows myself. One time it did fail to boot and I fought it for about a week ... then finally just used Linux Live USB to back up all my wife's files and then rebuilt it from scratch. I think in this case, though, we might have had a power outage right when it was in the act of updating. (And why does Windows take so damn long to update?) I can install and update Linux in 40 minutes (from scratch) and that includes all codecs and applications.
(Looks like I rambled. Sorry.)
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Sounds like you've just been unlucky with Windows. I've never had any major glitches, BSODs, refusals to boot etc. in all the years I've used it, on various laptops, low-end and high-end. Neither have I ever had to reinstall it. And I'm not the type of user who only uses their PC for internet and e-mail and leaves everything else as is. I've busily installed/uninstalled programs, changed various registry entries and so on. Perhaps I've just been uncommonly lucky.
Windows updates have never taken particularly long either, certainly a lot less than 40 minutes.