Any Linux users

[A Stuart]

Does anyone else here, by any chance, have a computer running on Linux, specifically Linux Mint 19, and been unable to boot it up this weekend? If so, see this https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...f=143&t=331605
Spent the weekend tearing my hair out trying to fix it until I came across this.

Alastair

[pre65]

In the past I've tried Ubuntu a few times with varying success. Fine for internet browsing but sometimes (more often than not) complicated for anything else.

Is Mint as versatile as Windows 10 ?

[A Stuart]

For me it started off with the demise of Windows XP support (six and a half years ago now!), and the man in the local computer shop suggesting it would not be worth paying him to put Windows 7 into an few years "old" machine.
This left me the choice of whether to stick my expensive, working, computer in the bin or do something with it.
And, a bit like entering DIY hifi, it was a case of proving to myself that it was not a scary box that only "experts" ought to delve inside.

If I had a formal education in computing it probably would be as versatile, but I am the limiting factor, not the system. You are less wrapped in cotton wool, but, as with this example I obtained the solution instantly I thought to look at the forum, rather than just googling scary-looking fixes for non-booting computers.
There is much less on-tap ready-to-use software than for Windows, but still fifty times more than I could ever perceive a need for.

In spite of being several years older than my "new " Windows machine it ploughs straight through large photo editing processes like butter, which Windows 10 plods through.

[pre65]

I have a hard drive loaded with Ubuntu, which I plug in now and then to check for updates.

Today it offered me version 20.4, so now I'm in the process of downloading and installing it.

[dofegif]

i use Windows

[A Stuart]

And are you interested in DIY hi-fi? (This is primarily a DIY hi-fi forum. I presume you noticed that .)

Also, my first ever post, I unwittingly answered something which was from years previous. It is always worth checking the date things were posted.

Is it Boston UK or Boston USA, or indeed any other?

[Richard]

I've no exp of anything but Windows but the last year's constant huge "updates" every other week from MS which slow the computer to a crawl are making me wonder if anything else is better?

[colin.hepburn]

Originally Posted by Richard

I've no exp of anything but Windows but the last year's constant huge "updates" every other week from MS which slow the computer to a crawl are making me wonder if anything else is better?

Hi Richard/All
Yep these windows 10 updates are a pain are they however there is a way around it just watch this chaps britec09 videos’ I have watched his vids for some time now a descent British computer teck

By following his videos’ on windows update I now have control I have blocked the very irritating constant huge "updates"
And can manually update the critical update when I want to update them here are the links to his videos ‘on how-to and more give them a look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmVWU1iVEo8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfpO_0yJ0rM

[pre65]

Some time ago, I purchased an inexpensive used Lenovo Chromebook.

I liked the way it worked, but I was not impressed by the fact that it was "life expired" as far as updates go.

Anyway, I also had an old Windows laptop, so I converted that to the Chrome operating system, and although it's not a proper "Chromebook" it has the majority of it's attributes.

So, If the major part of your computer usage is internet browsing, consider converting a Windows machine to the Chrome operating system.

[pre65]

Re Windows updates, I search for them daily, when I'm not busy, as I reason that it's better to have them than not.

But, having 4 W10 machines in the house, means I'm busy at monthly update time.