Windows to Chromebook Conversion

pnichols wrote:
My Windows 10 laptop boots up very fast, operates very fast, and performs just the way I want it to ... but it does this because:

1. It has solid state memory.

AND

2. Windows 10 is very adjustable ... and as such I'm able to tweak the daylights out of it so as to keep it fast and configured the way I prefer. One can't just set it and forget it and expect it to deliver the goods on it's own update after update.

I also take care of the DW's Apple iPad ... and IMHO Windows 10 is light years ahead of even the latest Apple 64 bit operating system. That Apple operating system is way over the top exasperating to keep adjusted and performing just the way she prefers.

I've lived with Windows operating systems for around 30 years (starting with a PCjr) and, so far, a solid state memory computer with user-tweaked Windows 10 and a recent Intel processor can finally be what a powerful but easy to use home computer should be.

#1 while SSD drives are "fast" they DO have some rather interesting "characteristics" (some now days would call "features") that can include the drive to totally drop dead with NO WARNING and with no hope of data recovery.

Backup your system and do it OFTEN, you never know when a SSD will become unresponsive so good backups ARE critical. External spinning rust drives and some sort of imaging software can save your bacon.

#2 Only SOME "features" of Win10 are "adjustable", most are not through Win10 interface, that is where "third party Apps" can become handy but for the most part you are stuck with what MS decide they think you need or want.

Many things that used to be "easy" to do, now takes a great deal of work to do, things like making a simple shortcut to the desktop takes a act of god to make..

Try making a shortcut from the "metro" screen to the desktop, I haven't found a way to do that directly.. Instead I have found that it is easier to dig through the hard drive folders and find the exe file then copy it and paste that to the desktop..

But hey, YOUR definition of "better" or "best" OS is vastly different
from my idea of better or best..

I don't like the "metro" screen forced on PC users from Win8 and Win10 not to mention try dealing with Win2012 or higher server.. I don't work alphabetically to find my programs, I put all of my most needed software right on the desktop. Much faster than starting with A and you need Z at the twentieth screen swipe.

Your "tweaks and adjustments" are only good for 6 months at a time, MS totally "refreshes" your OS with their "creators" updates.. Tends to wipe out your settings back to MS OEM and you get to see if you can make it work the way you had it..

Then you also agreed to let MS DUMP new "Apps" on to your PC at every update..

Then there is the funny little quirk of MS deciding if the software you have installed is "legit" which includes third party software that you paid good money for.. Yeah, if they decide it isn't "legit" by their standards, they make it VANISH..

They also can remove their own software, Apps, features at random anytime they decide they will no long "support" it.. Some of that software or Apps you just might be depending on someday may simply disappear into thin air on a simple reboot...

Other than that it is a "OK", not great OS..

For ease of tweaking and adjusting WITHOUT THE NEED FOR THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE you simply could not beat Win98SE/XP, Win7 started the down hill trail of removing user adjustments and "8" finished the dirty deed and "10" is a mere "5" (not "perfect")..