Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade etc

ianp5a said:
If anyone is fed up with all this, give Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu or similar OS a try. Stick one on a USB stick, reboot, play, surf and then decide. Like many before you, it's quite a relief and a fresh new start.
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I'll stick to debian :)
 
Nice. But for non computer people, so I'm told, it's a bit cutting edge. I just want to sort me photos and what not, with all the modern comforts.
 
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upgraded from win 7 x64 on both my laptop and desktop pc's
the laptop ( samsung I7 ) went smoothly with no glitches
the desktop ( I7 - gtx 970 - 16gig ram - 500gig SSD - creative labs X fi card ) went ok apart from the sound card
when first installed i had no sound but soon found a patched set of drivers and software and now works as it should

i was a bit wary about upgrading because the desktop pc is overclocked from 3.4 to 4.8gig and i know it can cause problems sometimes but decided to give it a try and it's still as stable as it was with win 7

bluetooth device drivers didn't install when doing the upgrade for some reason but are now, i'm not sure what went on there

all in all it's similar enough to win 7 user interface to make it an easy transition i couldn't get on with the win 8 interface it's one of the reasons i never bothered upgrading to it
i'l stick with windows 10 it seems stable enough and i managed to get my desktop gadgets back which arn't supported in version 10 which is nice :)
most of the programs i use still work a couple i found needed re installing but all in all it's ok
 
ianp5a said:
Nice. But for non computer people, so I'm told, it's a bit cutting edge. I just want to sort me photos and what not, with all the modern comforts.
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One of my testing drives has Debian Gnome on it, downloaded direct from Debian. It's a really nice looking DE, great screen fonts and icons, and quite lightweight too - well worth a quick look-see. After years of being firmly in the KDE camp I've settled on Mint Cinnamon for the time being, and it's been my choice of distro for nearly a year, but I'm still a little tempted to try it. No hassle to install whatsoever, but as always, make sure your data is safe before you start fiddling. :)
 
Meanwhile I've been running it since 29th July very happily. Further upgraded with Adobe CC which touch interface has improved significantly and support for hidpi screen, added Office 365 office 2016 update as well. Run several VM's and all is absolutely super duper fine. Best part is how windows now properly scales and support different scaling to different monitors.
 
ancient_mariner said:
One of my testing drives has Debian Gnome on it, downloaded direct from Debian. It's a really nice looking DE, great screen fonts and icons, and quite lightweight too - well worth a quick look-see. After years of being firmly in the KDE camp I've settled on Mint Cinnamon for the time being, and it's been my choice of distro for nearly a year, but I'm still a little tempted to try it. No hassle to install whatsoever, but as always, make sure your data is safe before you start fiddling. :)
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I put Win10 on my little netbook before I tried it on the main PC and everything is fine. I'm now tempted to put some flavour of Linux or similar on the little netbook - any thoughts?

It's a dual core 1.6 atom with 2 gigs of ram and 250 gig HD - just a plaything really.

Never tried any of the alternative operating systems.
 
Ubuntu. I have the older version on my Dell 10 NetBoot and that is just great.
 
JulesP said:
I put Win10 on my little netbook before I tried it on the main PC and everything is fine. I'm now tempted to put some flavour of Linux or similar on the little netbook - any thoughts?
It's a dual core 1.6 atom with 2 gigs of ram and 250 gig HD - just a plaything really.
Never tried any of the alternative operating systems.
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There are mainstream cosy Linuxes and nerdy versions. I prefer the mainstream ones for normal users such as Ubuntu, Mint, Kubuntu. Then there are lightweight variants Xubuntu (lightweight but fully fledged) and Lubuntu (very lightweight, slightly stripped down). (Have I missed one?) Any of them are easy to install and use. See 5 easiest to use modern Linux distributions

I have been recommended other distros by techie people who had not experienced the slickness of the ones mentioned above, and which needed some nerdy knowledge to get them going. Beware enthusiastic, well meaning nerds.
 
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Oh and I really like Elementary OS as well, it is very pretty, neatly pulled together and very suitable for non technical minded folk.

Or if you are the paranoid, conspiracy around every corner, don't trust this government, lefty anarchist type anti-lemming :) Tails might do it for you....
 
JulesP said:
I put Win10 on my little netbook before I tried it on the main PC and everything is fine. I'm now tempted to put some flavour of Linux or similar on the little netbook - any thoughts?

It's a dual core 1.6 atom with 2 gigs of ram and 250 gig HD - just a plaything really.

Never tried any of the alternative operating systems.
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How much hassle is it to download a try a variety? I have an old Philips/Twinhead 1.6GHz dual core machine with 2Gb RAM and run Linux Lite OS on that quite successfully. Elementary that dejongj mentioned can look nice depending on version, although they've been persuing an approach that tries to make people pay for 'free' software recently, Debian with a gnome desktop looks good. Mint with Mate desktop could also be good. I would avoid the KDE desktops because they are more demanding to run, and likewise most of the LXDE/XFCE desktops (apart from Linux Lite - designed to be friendly for windows users) because they often require you to fiddle a bit for full functionality.

Best thing to do is make a bootable USB memory stick & run the experimental OSs from that to evaluate before committing to disk. Many will also happily install alongside windows for multiple boot options, so you can keep windows and your existing functionality.

I did try tails for the sake of interest, but it's for paranoid people really.
 
Anyway...

At work we're starting the first W10 installs rolling out to production users, we're confident that following testing the hardware we are deploying to has stable drivers and most of the apps we use are very happy (apart from the legacy ones that still run XP over W7 anyway).
 
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