That Linux praise?...I take at least part of it back.
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The problem with 7 nowadays is that there's hundreds of updates waiting to be downloaded and installed even if you clean-install from the latest ISO you can get from Microsoft. Based on my own observations of doing clean installs of Windows 7 nowadays, there's a 50-50 chance you can't just start the update process and walk away for a few hours--something will be broken. Being lucky means being able to restart the update process a few times and it'll manage to complete cleanly.
Turn off updates, thats what I do, and win7 is my principle OS.
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Win 7 and hirens' boot CD and turn off windows updates because nothing actually necessary or important has come out since the latest ISO.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
Nothing you NEED has come out since the iso. :)
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Win 7 and hirens' boot CD Install, update, image... new updates come? restore image, delta update, image.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Good CD, very good actually, but I prefer Macrium. Or you can just turn off updates...
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How depressingly true. Even when, for example, people have exhaustive notes in a blog somewhere to get something going...at least half of it is no longer going to be applicable a few versions down the road.
Ain't that the truth! Even the blogs that list the build process for the kernel over 3 or 4 versions finally give up.
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Could I please make a few representations for the defence? It's not surprising that a PC built to run Windows does not run Linux as efficiently. Also, it takes two to network, if Linux doesn't network well with Windows it's equally true that Windows does not network well with Linux. As for the final statement, 'Linux...you're so close, yet still so far from actually being usable.' How can you explain that, according to Wikipedia, 'Linux has the largest installed base of all general-purpose operating systems. Linux is also the leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe computers'?
George Swan wrote:
a PC built to run Windows
In what way? It is juts an instruction set, how it is used is up to the software vendor.
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George Swan wrote:
a PC built to run Windows
In what way? It is juts an instruction set, how it is used is up to the software vendor.
The problem is not with the CPU, it's the lack of driver support for the bungled hardware. See this piece regarding Nvidia.
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The problem is not with the CPU, it's the lack of driver support for the bungled hardware. See this piece regarding Nvidia.
Right, that is something different then. Of course in the linux world anyone ca write a driver for an Nvidia card, if they have access to the register documentation. I have put 17.10 on a laptop with Nvidia, it has been a bit of a faff, but it works.
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Yep, it is close, but just fails at the final hurdle. I am having issues with 17.10 and nvidia drivers, (massively high) resolutions, blank screens. Perhaps go back to an older Ubuntu with the unity shell?
I would try Linux Mint before giving up.
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I would try Linux Mint before giving up.
No plans to give up! Not that I intend to use it, I just need to get a kernel with some extra tracing/step through running so I can see why my USB device isnt working properly on linux.
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Good CD, very good actually, but I prefer Macrium. Or you can just turn off updates...
For the Win10 Laptop I have changed to Macrium too... Hiren's was not working anymore and I needed a substitute. Pity :sigh: I tested the one that OG recommends, the software was nice, but the boot CD sucked. Macrium is a bit more complicated, but the Boot CD worked fine for me.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Could I please make a few representations for the defence? It's not surprising that a PC built to run Windows does not run Linux as efficiently. Also, it takes two to network, if Linux doesn't network well with Windows it's equally true that Windows does not network well with Linux. As for the final statement, 'Linux...you're so close, yet still so far from actually being usable.' How can you explain that, according to Wikipedia, 'Linux has the largest installed base of all general-purpose operating systems. Linux is also the leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe computers'?
George Swan wrote:
How can you explain that, according to Wikipedia,
Easily.
George Swan wrote:
'Linux has the largest installed base of all general-purpose operating systems.
These days they include Android phones in the count when you hear that statement
George Swan wrote:
Linux is also the leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe computers'?
Notice how they leave out desktops...which is the sort of environment I'm trying to use it in and where it's failing.
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Yep, it is close, but just fails at the final hurdle. I am having issues with 17.10 and nvidia drivers, (massively high) resolutions, blank screens. Perhaps go back to an older Ubuntu with the unity shell?
Munchies_Matt wrote:
Perhaps go back to an older Ubuntu with the unity shell?
I've been thinking about that. Perhaps something that was current at the time the latest Linux drivers for my video chipset came out. Maybe I'll do that if the system (now back on Windows 10) starts running into errors installing updates again... It's important though in this case that I use something lightweight. Unity is all but that.
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Munchies_Matt wrote:
Perhaps go back to an older Ubuntu with the unity shell?
I've been thinking about that. Perhaps something that was current at the time the latest Linux drivers for my video chipset came out. Maybe I'll do that if the system (now back on Windows 10) starts running into errors installing updates again... It's important though in this case that I use something lightweight. Unity is all but that.
I believe at login you can chose unity 2D instead of 3D. 2D is lighter I believe.
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I believe at login you can chose unity 2D instead of 3D. 2D is lighter I believe.
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keep looking long after others have given up.
My gawd! I wish I had known you in the old days when I was hiring computer experts like you. But now I'm retired. Sorry! :-D By the way: I dumped Ubuntu years ago, when it did not have a driver for a plain Soundblaster card. I never tried it again.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Not surprising. It also missing drivers for all sort of graphic cards other than Intel, making gaming / video editing / photo editing a pain in the butt because of how sluggish it is.
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The problem is not with the CPU, it's the lack of driver support for the bungled hardware. See this piece regarding Nvidia.
That middle finger salute is laughable. Nvidia is a money making corporation, it is not a charity foundation. They have no obligation to make drivers for open source OS, which gives them zero income. They have workers who have families to be fed.
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That middle finger salute is laughable. Nvidia is a money making corporation, it is not a charity foundation. They have no obligation to make drivers for open source OS, which gives them zero income. They have workers who have families to be fed.
I think the main complaint is that Nvidia do not disclose sufficient information to allow others to build efficient drivers for its hardware.
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I think the main complaint is that Nvidia do not disclose sufficient information to allow others to build efficient drivers for its hardware.
Those are company secret :-)