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....and its always been about the money.Originally Posted by walpurgis
Not unexpected!
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a7651351.html
And this is a complete 'whopper'! The idea is that W10 garners more profiling info which can then be sold. It's about the money!!!
plenty of alternatives here: http://distrowatch.com
Cheers / Chris
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I know. I've used many distros. They vary a lot in 'user friendliness' and capability. I may end up going there again.
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Been quite a fan of Linux Mint for some years, downloaded Mint Xfce 32 bit yesterday, seem to run OK.
There are just too many distros to choose from, very confusing for the user, especially the new user.
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Yes Mint is great and an easy place to start with Linux. I am writing this on Mint xfce
on a salvaged computer that cost me $20.00, now running like a charm.
All the different desktop versions of Mint are here: http://www.linuxmint.com
IMO it is great there is choice.
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I'm malcolm.
Another Mint fan here, recently loaded it on an Asus laptop with touchscreen, installed on an SSD and everything ran straight out of the box. Mint KDE 64bit.
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Liked mint when i ran it myself. Found i needed windows too much so had to go back alas.
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I'm malcolm.
Yep i know how you feel, i also have to run a Windows 10 laptop as well as there are a few programs that are essential to me and only available on that platform.
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Getting a few broadband 'dropouts' in the last few days. Seems a moderately regular thing. It can be OK for months then go through phases of it. It's normally me that reports it and gets told I may be subject to fees if it's not a BT line fault. I'll let somebody else report it this time. It must affect many around here. On every occasion that I've been informed of the outcome, the fault has (allegedly) been located at a phone line junction well up the road from me.
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Just received a huge Windows 7 update. Nearly 33,000 items. I just hope it doesn't cock anything up, as has been known to happen.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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I'm Alex.
I've just been fixing a Lenovo laptop with 7 on it for a neighbour, was dead, an easy one, the charger was dead, new one arrived this morning. Machine came to life but I could not log on because it was password protected, however got a warning not to turn off, updates (24, I think) were being performed. This took ages.
The owner got the machine back about half an hour ago, tells me that they cannot get on to gmail and that the desktop background has changed. I told them it wasn't anything I've done as I could not log on.
They went on to Teamviewer, looks like their home page had been changed as well as background. Put it all right. Perhaps it was the updates that changed this stuff.
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