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I've been on Linux for about 10 years, mostly Ubuntu.
Windows 7 End of Life Announcement
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I've been on Linux for about 10 years, mostly Ubuntu.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
If I can find the time, I would like to study what makes Linux tick. I used to fall asleep in my 'Operating systems and networks' lectures because we had a lecturer with a very soporific voice and I would be dozy after a hearty lunch. On the rare occasions when I stayed awake I found the lectures interesting! 
Windows 10 also allows you to use a pin code too.I suggest that if you upgrade your OS and change your password then make a note of it somewhere...
(Fortunately, I had only added a few non-alphabetic characters to my old password, so I was able to guess the new one after 6 or 7 attempts!)
mustang1
Guru
- Location
- London, UK
presta
Guru
You can also set File Explorer to default to This PC instead of Quick Access that way.
QA had me confused before I realised what it is. I thought a load of files had been copied off a USB stick onto the computer without my asking. I also discovered that I've had a load of my files on One Drive for the last 5 years without my knowledge, it appears to have happened when I was trying to find out how to download Email attachments. I find W10 disorientating, half the time I'm wondering whether the window I'm using is on the OS or the internet.
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2 years is all I could deal with as well.
Personally I like it.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Why don't people like Quick Access? I stumbled across it, and now use it all the time. Quick access to the things you've been working on recently - what's not to like?
mustang1
Guru
- Location
- London, UK
It IS a good OS. But I blame open source life development methodologies for the illa of our society by deploying into production code that is not ready for such.
I dislike the mantra of "just get version 1 out the door". What happened to the "we have to make this work before it's released to market". Sure, the product becomes better as time goes on with the updates. It I find these problems in so many consumer products.
This is NOT the fault of Linux, but I blame the methodologies used that created a product such as Linux.
Is windows better? Well, there is more support for more stuff more of the time, so based on that criteria, yes. I dislike the updates windows gets as well.
I understand WHY it's done, but I don't agree with it and think more products should be rolled using something like 6 sigma methods.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
It quickly got clogged up with all the things I've been doing recently, which aren't necessarily the things I'm doing now, or next.
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I usually run the LTS version, I'm not a fan of the 6 monthly update routine, they seem to have that better sorted these days though, but I remember back when I first started how poorly sorted it was sometimes.
presta
Guru
Because it makes it look like files are in places where they don't belong, and making things confusing is a recipe for mistakes.
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Agreed, I also turn it off.
presta
Guru
What do people do if they want more than one account?
On W7 I had an admin account and a separate user account for everyday use, but if I want that on W10 it won't let me use the same email address. I tried setting up a user with an alias on the same Hotmail a/c, and it worked, but both accounts appear on the login page with the same name, so it's difficult to see which is which. I could use separate emails, but the one I'd prefer for the user account is now already linked to the admin account.
I still haven't transferred my files off the old computer, because I'm trying to sort this before I move them.
On W7 I had an admin account and a separate user account for everyday use, but if I want that on W10 it won't let me use the same email address. I tried setting up a user with an alias on the same Hotmail a/c, and it worked, but both accounts appear on the login page with the same name, so it's difficult to see which is which. I could use separate emails, but the one I'd prefer for the user account is now already linked to the admin account.
I still haven't transferred my files off the old computer, because I'm trying to sort this before I move them.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I had that the other day!
I plugged a USB stick in to do my Linux update and then started messing about with some photos, not realising that they were on the USB stick rather than the laptop's SSD. A couple of days later I went to look at the photos again and they had disappeared. It took me a while to realise that they had never actually been on the laptop in the first place!
