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| eugenenine:
--- Quote from: wilfred on December 19, 2015, 10:51:05 pm ---Moving to Linux is not a viable solution for non technical users. --- End quote --- Takes no more technical skill that reinstalling windows. I've gotten to clean up peoples windows reinstall that didn't know to download the manufacturers chipset drivers so you had 20 minute boot time then finally get the drivers downloaded and installed and it then boots in 2 minutes. |
| Zero999:
Linux is fine for those who aren't technical, until it comes to installing something like a printer which isn't supported. |
| SeanB:
--- Quote from: Hero999 on December 20, 2015, 06:27:32 pm ---Linux is fine for those who aren't technical, until it comes to installing something like a printer which isn't supported. --- End quote --- You mean a printer that actually is supported under Win7/8/10, which pretty much does exclude all printers older than around 4 years. Or is it the 300M installer that also includes " for your convenience" all languages under the sun, installers for all models from the first to the latest ( except for your model, which requires another 300M download of course), some ad supported bloatware that has no uninstaller, no EULA, installs before any other screens even show up, and which only serves to use more memory than you have, use more disk space and which communicates with some home server almost every mouse click you make. Or like when I connected a HP laser to my box, and turned it on, after which it just worked without any other action on my part. I use a driver at work that just talks PCL6, and point it at the printer. Still the same even though the printer has been changed out twice since it was installed, and still works fine, unlike the windows drivers which fall over every so often. |
| Lightages:
The problem for many is that there aren't many options but to run Windows of some flavor for many important programs, especially if there is a significant investment in that software. For me I have some significant money tied up in Adobe products, Sony Vegas and other multimedia production from Sony, addons and plugins for the them, Autocad, Reaper, and some other things. I basically have the choice to dump those investments and use the Linux "alternatives" or keep on with Win7 until I can't anymore. I have tried to do all in Linux that I needed once upon a time but it was impossible. Dependencies would always break before I could get everything working. So the Linux snobs yelled at me for being stooopid for trying to do what I wanted to do, and being stooopid for not knowing how to make everything work, or called me stooopid for trying to use modern hardware. The suggestions were to multiboot a different distro, or multiple installs of the same distro, plus run windows in a virtual machine to get everything working. What a waste of time and what a joke. I guess I need to try again, but I hate masochism...... |
| Nepenthes:
Change just for change is never good. Windows 7 is ideal for mankind. The geeks can have 8 and 10. |
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