Every OS Sucks.
True to a point, but installing any decent Linux distro takes less time than installing Winblows these days.
I built a new computer for my daughter a couple of weekends ago and took possession of her old machine (which was originally mine).
Windows had decayed into such disarray that it took several minutes to boot from SSD and even longer to shut down. So I installed a copy of the latest release of Linux Mint, installed Steam and about 20 minutes later I was happily playing Half Life 2 with flawless sound and video.
This install won't decay into treacle any time soon! More to the point, it won't be sending private information to Microsnot without my permission.
Ummm... yeah.
My current build of Windows is literally 13 years old. I know people running Mint who aren't that old; good for them, they have a lot more time to waste than I do.
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You read that right.
THIRTEEN EFFING YEARS. It started out on an Athlon II/8GB Build of XP/64-bit. And has been
Upgraded to Win7/64 with my Phenom II 1055T/16GB and then recently Win10/64 and at least a dozen HDD upgrades over the years. I have archived backups going back to 2008. Never once have I lost my "current" workspace. I have legacy 32-bit apps working on this machine you can't even INSTALL on it now.
My first "fresh install" on my daily driver (aside from some dozens of experimental builds of everything from OS2/Warp to Ubuntu on a dedicated drive) since then is this SSD build with an FX8350 and the same MB/16GB RAM.
I am a true believer in "Hot-Swap" HDD bay technology.
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Every once in a while I refresh core OS files from disc and clean the registry of old drivers with GHOST. I ran SPEC (Enterprise Windoze Defender) until they deprecated it, now I run Defender. I run ShutUp10 weekly when I do my backups. *NIX has similar maintenance that must be done no less frequently.
Plus, I don't have the the joy of watching other people loving the hell out of some new toy I can't play with for 6-18 months because it took that long for someone with better Kung-Fu than mine to write a driver for it.
I can just [CLICK] on slAmazon, and be enjoying it too in a day or two. ![Grin ;D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xgrin.gif.pagespeed.ic.QVVz6XIT20.png)
mnem
*the lesser of two weevils*