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What is your operating system on your computer?

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Windows 7/8/10/11
Linux
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Whether it's a laptop or desktop PC, what is the operating system you use?

Ever since microsoft locked long time users out, I've since moved on and am learning a whole new system with Linux Mint. If all you do on the computer is get on the internet, or type a few things up in word or notepad on Windows, you honestly don't even need Windows anymore. You can do all of those things on Linux Mint!!
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Persephonee · 26-30, F Best Comment
Mint for the same reason as you! But i dont imaging going back. It can be frustrating but i never realised how insufferable Windows was til i tried something else
Maturebate · 70-79, M
@Persephonee I did find a way to install windows without having to log in to a MS account which gave me some independence, but Fedora lets me do all I need without having to use terminal that often.
twiigss · M
@Maturebate I've noticed with Linux Mint, you can do things in the terminal, and you can do those same things in the GUI. Like making a program executable. I like having the knowledge of being able to do it both ways, but will typically do tasks with the GUI over terminal.
Persephonee · 26-30, F
@twiigss Much more importantly

(a) one doesn't ever really need to use the terminal unless one wants to and
(b) if one does, there is a huge community of people who have already suggested the appropriate commands you might want for a particular task just a quick internet search away.

Because I never remotely grew up up in any faintly nerdy/really-into-computers household, I just assumed Linux (Mint anyway) was just for people who love computers and love making live hard for themselves.

It is different, but I reckon it's actually far easier - and more configurable - than Windows to use. (To say nothing of the OS not spying on you)

Confined · 56-60, M
I use Ubuntu and Zorin. I tried mint but I like these better. Anything Linux is better then the crap microsoft puts out.
twiigss · M
@Confined Yeah you're definitely not wrong there!! I had tried Mint 19 before when I had Windows 7, but the experience wasn't so great, fast forward to Mint 22.2 and it's been nothing but a smooth ride for me.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
I have one desktop on Linux Zorin and one on Windows 11😷
twiigss · M
@whowasthatmaskedman Yeah I have a laptop I bought from walmart many years ago, and that still has Windows 7 Home Premium on it. Thought about changing it over to Linux and then thought well I'll keep it around just in case I need it for something, but so far I haven't needed it for anything regarding a need to get something from Windows or whatever or thought about anything I'd need to test etc.
HumanEarth · F
@whowasthatmaskedman Zorin 18 I'm not sure about yet. But Zorin 16 I like the best out of Zorin flavors
HumanEarth · F
I use Linux Slackware

http://www.slackware.com/
HumanEarth · F
Sometimes with newer machines you have to flash the boards with boot from USB support.

It's a new tricky thing that makers started doing to make you buy a new machine
HumanEarth · F
Or upgrade their OS
HumanEarth · F
Then you should be safe then
Never heard of Linux Mint ... I wanted to buy the new MacBook Neo but it didn't have the backlight keyboard. I currently have a Dell Laptop I use frequently.
twiigss · M
@Souls well and you can buy keyboards separate. They're all USB these days
twiigss · M
@twiigss and I'm so silly OMG, you said MacBook, that's a laptop, laptops are a monitor and keyboard. Gotcha gotcha.

Only took me 9h after my last post to realize that 😅.

Yeah I would think most keyboards and laptop keyboards would be backlit. It certainly would be a nice feature to have.
Northwest · M
MacOS, MacOS, MacOS and Windows 11 on a test machine.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
My phone. Android. I'm sick and tired of the operating systems and computers. Like you I started with dos before msdos and cpm before that. It's all becoming a miserable headache.
Musicman · 61-69, M
We are Window's 11.
twiigss · M
@Musicman Yeah my friend is on Windows 11. My computer can't even run it!
Musicman · 61-69, M
@twiigss My old computer couldn't either. It was 10 years old so we got a new one last year on a Black Friday special.
bookerdana · M
I don't think I could do the ..what is it..command line thing even in the Windows friendly distros..if i had a second computer maybe I would but many programs I use daily wouldn't run
twiigss · M
@bookerdana yeah if you didn't grow up using DOS, commandline will be a lot tougher.

Fortunately when we got a computer, MS-DOS was the only OS at the time.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
I use Windows 11, but from necessity not choice.

I do not like what Microsoft has become, how it has ruined what used to be its own effective products, and its business models.

Unfortunately I do not know enough about operating-systems to be safe trying to replace the Mickeysoft with A.N.Other, and I use third-party software and its facilities written to work only in Windows.

I have not been locked out by Microsoft, to which I was introduced in its MS-DOS days, but have up-dated my system for security even though each up-date since WIN7 brings more gimmicks, more needless difficulty and less value.

(I refuse to call it "up-grade" because it isn't. It's a "down-grade".)
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@twiigss Ah, now here we get to the nub of the problem for people like me.

I use assorted programmes on computers, and have done for years, including special ones written by my superiors at work purely for that work.

Yet I know nothing about operating systems, have no idea how my PC is formatted. If try to alter or configure anything, or install a new OS, I am likely only to render the computer unuseable and bring me a hefty bill for its recovery by a specialist.
twiigss · M
@ArishMell As much as I've been using computers I've become very comfortable with them, upgrading and even built my own PC.

If you use Windows then your drives are formatted as NTFS.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@twiigss Thankyou.

Windows used to have quite detailed "anatomical" tools easy to find, but WIN-11 does not.

I think when Microsoft published WIN-10 it said there would be no more WIN-number editions, but I am not sure what it will do now, nor am I sure it knows either.
Lilnonames · F
i got windows 11 mini pc
Lilnonames · F
@twiigss no thats why i bought the mini
Lilnonames · F
@Lilnonames but have no internet nor wifi yet,so its in the box
twiigss · M
@Lilnonames ohhhhh
Mickey27 · M
twiigss · M
@TryingtoLava ohhhhh you're on Mac Lava? I've never used it before so I had to look it up 😅

 
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