Are You Sick and Tired of Windows? - Comments Page 2

A Chromebook would be tempting (likewise using web-based software) except for one thing: You need to have access to the internet. That is not always possible. When my husband and I travel in our camper, we often stay at state parks. Rarely do we have reliable internet, let alone any cell phone service. So, I'll stick with my current Windows-based laptop that uses installed programs. Even if I can't post or browse the web, I can still do my writing without needing to access the cloud.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Hi Linda, there are quite a few things you can with a Chromebook when offline. You can view, create, and edit documents, spreadsheets, or slides using Google Drive. You can read, respond and search your Gmail. or watch movies, play music or games.

Occasionally, I try LibreOffice on Windows. "Writer" has had difficulty with layouts in Microsoft Word docs.
I use Word 2003, so maybe newer Word docs won't puzzle Writer.

Never had a problem upgrading our home's three Windows 7 laptops to Windows 10, all run smoothly and without update problems.

I been using a life stealing computer for over 30 years now and I really do not like what they have become. I long for the days when you told your computer what to do and it did it. Now the computer tells you what to do and makes it real difficult to say no. At least windows does in my opinion. Also in my opinion LINUX is way better.
I use Ubuntu myself.

As you say Bob; "operating systems are starting to matter less, as web-based and cloud-based computing become the norm".

Lord help you if you put all your eggs in the cloud and they decide one day not to give them back. Then What? That is what people should really be concerned about. Oh they really wouldn't do that would they (as my data is collected and sold for a profit that I get no royalty from)? Funny Ha Ha

The pop-up said "Requires Windows 7 or better". So I installed Linux.

I've been fooling around with Linux on my older systems. Bottom line, not prepared to make the leap over yet.

I've been messing around with a variety of flavors of Linux off and on for years. I like it, but don't see why I should run something that has such limited driver support that I would have to buy new peripherals (matter of principle).

Chromium especially in a user friendly and free home install variant called Cloudready (not connected with them in any way) which auto updates is an option for those who want to replicate the Chromebook experience on an aging laptop.

Chromebooks and Macs:I was surprised to discover that both systems have relatively short end of life or end of update time spans.

People may complain about windows, but most machines that can run Windows 7 can be converted over to W10, some 11 years later. So most will still have a machine that they can continue to use with updates, whereas Chrome and IOS have a much shorter time span and then the machine is on a downward slope to obsolescence.

For those of you considering upgrading? to Windows 10 it can still be done for free. 2 months ago my 7 Pro and 1 month ago my 7 Home. 10 may not be of my liking but i was surprised 95+% of the 7 programs worked. It just took hours for all the software and hardware updates to install. The how-to procedure is online and installing only affects the operating system partition. So dual boot and other data partitions are not affected. Surprise! Of course i backed up everything before and after. Windows only allowed 30 days to revert back to 7.

What if you have a printer that doesn't have drivers for Windows 10. I have kept an old PC with Windows XP solely so I can print. Wiukd an alternate OS solve that problem?

Although I haven't owned a Mac yet, I have tried Linux and my tablets and phones are Androids. My best all around computing experience has always been on MS Windows.

I DO NOT LIKE WINDOWS 10. TRIED TO PRINT A 2-PAGE
"SCAM/PHONEY E-MAIL." WINDOWS POPS UP AND SAYS IT WILL RESET MY PRINTER.
I CANNOT PRINT 2 PAGES, EVEN WHEN I CLICK IN THE OS 1 - 2
FAR AS WINDOWS 10 GOES, I KNOW A PLACE WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE, AND ITS HEADING THERE NOW!