Windows 8 or 7. Which would you choose?
Hi, all. My current Toshiba laptop is getting a little long in the tooth and runs WinXP3. I don't know much about the newer operating systems so I'd like to hear from any of you tech savvy folks about...
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Chris Bryant wrote:
... I simply cannot see what people like about Windows...
... Don't get me wrong- I am familiar with Linux (and in particular, Debian based distributions)- there were a couple of issues which were easily dealt with (Debian Testing is just what it says- testing, as opposed to Stable). On bootup I saw an error (though it booted and worked fine). Opened a terminal window, typed 'dmesg' which lists all of the boot messages. The error was dealing with console display on boot, and told what to do to fix it- install 'linux-firmware-nonfree', so I opened the package manager and installed it.
I did forget about an option in the Debian installer to install an alternate desktop- it installs Gnome as default, and I prefer KDE, for a number of reasons, though there are many desktop environments available for Linux- the desktop is very much separate from the underlying OS. You can easily make it look and function just like any version of Windows or OS X, or you can make it work just like you want (what I do).
You just explained why people use Windows instead of Linux. What percentage of overall computer users would have the know how to be able to deal with the issues you described here?
