Windows to Chromebook Conversion
My Chromebook outperforms my Windows 10 laptop. Both have similar specs. Is it feasible/practical to make the conversion? I don't think simply changing browsers will accomplish what I want.
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That StartisBack looks like an interesting concept. However I entirely skipped Windows 7 and 8, so maybe don't understand the attractions of their ease of use features.
My Windows 10 start up screen background is always one of many spectacular landscape photographs I've stored in a folder I installed on the desktop. While using the computer, they change at random every minute and one of them comes up as background whenever I start the computer.
Superimposed on the desktop over whatever background photo is current at the moment is my unchanging cluster of customized desktop software or Internet access icons ... with the taskbar icons down below for additional software or apps or services that I've parked there primarily for instant finger tip access to system services and adjustments.
All of the above I've setup using Windows 10 customization capabilities. Other than the slide show background and the modern mobile device type apps that Windows 10 handles - both of which I don't think are possible with XP - my desktop closely resembles my opening XP computer's desktop design that I settled on years ago for my personal ease of use preferences.
I don't believe in using a cloud based device (which is really just my information stored on a server somewhere). Keeping information there presents just another opening for hackers to get at my stuff someway, someday ... plus it makes my Windows 10 laptop too dependent on Internet access ... which we don't always have in RV camping places. For instance I keep stored right in my laptop's SSD drive such things as detailed and current map software of North America almost as good as Google Earth, thousands of personal photographs (backed up elsewhere at home) going back for years, and a large music library. On RV trips I carry along a compact USB DVD player that I can plug into the laptop to play movies evenings - either on the 15 inch laptop screen or on an external screen in the RV - when we're not outside sitting around our propane firepit.
I did have to put in the time to get Windows 10 right where I want it. I guess my point is Windows 10 is ultra-flexible on how one might want to customize it and use as they prefer. There are a lot of capabilities inside Windows 10 that I don't care about ... and they can be gotten completely out of the way as much as I want.
My Windows 10 start up screen background is always one of many spectacular landscape photographs I've stored in a folder I installed on the desktop. While using the computer, they change at random every minute and one of them comes up as background whenever I start the computer.
Superimposed on the desktop over whatever background photo is current at the moment is my unchanging cluster of customized desktop software or Internet access icons ... with the taskbar icons down below for additional software or apps or services that I've parked there primarily for instant finger tip access to system services and adjustments.
All of the above I've setup using Windows 10 customization capabilities. Other than the slide show background and the modern mobile device type apps that Windows 10 handles - both of which I don't think are possible with XP - my desktop closely resembles my opening XP computer's desktop design that I settled on years ago for my personal ease of use preferences.
I don't believe in using a cloud based device (which is really just my information stored on a server somewhere). Keeping information there presents just another opening for hackers to get at my stuff someway, someday ... plus it makes my Windows 10 laptop too dependent on Internet access ... which we don't always have in RV camping places. For instance I keep stored right in my laptop's SSD drive such things as detailed and current map software of North America almost as good as Google Earth, thousands of personal photographs (backed up elsewhere at home) going back for years, and a large music library. On RV trips I carry along a compact USB DVD player that I can plug into the laptop to play movies evenings - either on the 15 inch laptop screen or on an external screen in the RV - when we're not outside sitting around our propane firepit.
I did have to put in the time to get Windows 10 right where I want it. I guess my point is Windows 10 is ultra-flexible on how one might want to customize it and use as they prefer. There are a lot of capabilities inside Windows 10 that I don't care about ... and they can be gotten completely out of the way as much as I want.
