One of those Days......

[bluzeo]

For me I don’t have any windows at all. I got an lite desktop and laptop and an ubuntu mate desktop.


God Not dead.

[Jerry]

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[Jocklad]

Well,


        Thats over two months without booting Windows.


        Have I needed it or missed it.........NOoooooooooo 

[Jocklad]

Well one thing is certain,after removing Windows 10 and Windows 7 and replacing with Linux my internet connection is much faster.


Has Windows been hogging my bandwidth......?. [size=78%] [/size]

[trinidad]

Tell me about it. I've got 3 Kaspersky licenses and a year left on an MS refurb license. The people I really feel for are the ones who upgraded to Windows 10 a year or so ago, and then got notified a few months ago that their hardware is no longer supported. It's like; "Here let me help you upgrade," and then; "We're sorry but now we don't wanna waste our time on your old hardware. Good luck with your stuff." I was working as a tech consultant for a very big global company when Windows 95 came out, and the whole company decided to switch from IBM mainframe and workstations, to PCs. They already had Windows 3.1 PCs in the marketing department but everything else was mainframe and workstations. The engineering department was a disaster for three years. I visited them in 2005 and they still had two PCs stashed in the engineering department running Windows 3.1 for viewing old technical advisories that never got converted beyond 3.1, literally millions of pages. Everything happens faster in the computing industry including obsolescence. Living without MS is a rewarding goal.

TC     

[Jocklad]

Just had a nice thought.


Wont need Malwarebytes  Premium anymore.


That saves £60 a year  .

[trinidad]

Cool.

[Jocklad]

@TC

Jocklad - I issue you a challenge. I understand there may still be applications that you need on Windows 7. Can you go one month without using Windows?

Been having a good think about this.

The question is....Do I still need Windows.....?.

And the answer has to be .....No.

So I have removed Windows 7 and Windows 10 from two desktops.

These have been replaced with Archmerge and Mx 16.

My other desktop will of course remain on Linux Lite 3.6.

I have not wiped the Windows drives..........Yet.

Its now all Linux.

[newtusmaximus]

My Sat Nav apparently runs on linux However the map updates and speed trap maps  have to be updated via a windows app that refused to run on WINE.  How frustrating is that!!

[torreydale]

Another good reason to have Windows is to update the BIOS of some computers.  But I don't think I'll install it just to do that.


Sorry to hear about your friend.

[Jocklad]

Actually one of my main reasons for keeping a Windows install was for updating Go-Pro camera equipment.


It may be possible on Linux...dont know.....never really looked into it.


I looked after the Go-Pro equipment for an elderly friend.


He sadly passed away a few weeks ago.

[torreydale]

I love Jerry's two comments here. 


I have Windows down to two uses.  Tax software and vSphere Desktop Client.  I know I can do taxes via a browser and manage an ESXi host via vCenter, but I don't have a vCenter license, and I don't yet want to do taxes via a browser.  I'm sure in my personal life I haven't logged into Windows in over a month.

[bitsnpcs]

I thought Microsoft were now using peoples computers near each other without their permission for file sharing/to improve the download speeds.

[Jocklad]

Hope you did not lose any valuable date.  Still trying to recover min.

There was nothing important on it.

I always backup my important stuff to a 1TB external drive.

Windows 7 is re-installed..............Only 184 updates to download and install. 


Will take hours.

[newtusmaximus]

Hope you did not lose any valuable date.  Still trying to recover min.