Windows 10

Where is it possible to get "hands on" for these other OSs?

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/ Unix tutorials

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-flavours Ubuntu/Linux specs

Thanx

I upgraded to Win10 recently after seeing it at the local Staples. It's not terrible as an OS. If one can live with Win7 this isn't a stretch to use. It's definitely not the detestable (and hated by me) Win8! Trust me, I'm not easy to please and Win10 isn't horrible as an OS. But it does have some things that I do detest.

All of my programs appear to work, but my printer wouldn't scan. So today I had to buy a new one(officejet pro8610) as I scan documents quite often. The old photoprinter does everything else fine, so I'm thinking I'll hold onto it for that, but it's so freakin' big. Maybe I'd be better served with a smaller dedicated photoprinter. Anyone know of one? Thanks for forcing me to buy a new all-in-one MS!

BTW, the OfficeJet has an offer for "reduced rate" printing. Basically, if I understand it, one buys a contract for x amount of sheets printed per month. One can carry over a number of unprinted sheets to the next month, and HP will send ink as the printer tells them to. What is it with Win10? I've noticed that MS and now HP want us to pay for the use of OUR computers via rental? For me the HP deal is a bad one. I can print 500 sheets one month and 50 the next. And MS can take their Cortana and cram it, and their "pay for" games. What a bunch of junk; but of course it's aimed toward the skulls full of mush. Maybe some day I'll go through things and get rid of programs that could cost me if a child gets on the computer. Frankly I find the marketing of "rental" games and software offensive. I also don't want to be tracked. I have nothing to hide, I just don't want it. Screw Cortana, and I don't trust MS "edge" either. It prompted me to move to Mozilla for my default email and browser.

:-) No wonder MS offered the free upgrade... they plan to charge me to use my computer. Except I don't use my computer for crap games and such so they're out of luck. They did cost me $200 for a new printer. I forgot that Win10 did that to printers. My forgetfulness. Not a free upgrade at all.

BTW, I checked with the HP software site and there was no software to make my printer work. What a surprise. Bend over and grab my ankles.

Unix is fairly intuitive for PC users...

Microsoft has said that this is the last version of Windows it will produce. From here on out, any new updates or security requirements are suppsed to he application or patch-in updates.

With everything in software making the move to cloud-based EULAs, it makes sense to stabilize the platform and move forward as a cohesive OS instead of trying to rebuild the wheel every couple of years with a ground up restructuring of the same old bloated OS...

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I wouldn't say unix is fairly intuitive for users..recent distros of linux, yes...but unix, probably not so much.

ubuntu and mint are probably the eaiser version of linux to start with.

I upgraded to Win10 recently after seeing it at the local Staples. It's not terrible as an OS. If one can live with Win7 this isn't a stretch to use. It's definitely not the detestable (and hated by me) Win8! Trust me, I'm not easy to please and Win10 isn't horrible as an OS. But it does have some things that I do detest.

All of my programs appear to work, but my printer wouldn't scan. So today I had to buy a new one(officejet pro8610) as I scan documents quite often. The old photoprinter does everything else fine, so I'm thinking I'll hold onto it for that, but it's so freakin' big. Maybe I'd be better served with a smaller dedicated photoprinter. Anyone know of one? Thanks for forcing me to buy a new all-in-one MS!

BTW, the OfficeJet has an offer for "reduced rate" printing. Basically, if I understand it, one buys a contract for x amount of sheets printed per month. One can carry over a number of unprinted sheets to the next month, and HP will send ink as the printer tells them to. What is it with Win10? I've noticed that MS and now HP want us to pay for the use of OUR computers via rental? For me the HP deal is a bad one. I can print 500 sheets one month and 50  the next. And MS can take their Cortana and cram it, and their "pay for" games. What a bunch of junk; but of course it's aimed toward the skulls full of mush. Maybe some day I'll go through things and get rid of programs that could cost me if a child gets on the computer. Frankly I find the marketing of "rental" games and software offensive. I also don't want to be tracked. I have nothing to hide, I just don't want it. Screw Cortana, and I don't trust MS "edge" either. It prompted me to move to Mozilla for my default email and browser.

:-) No wonder MS offered the free upgrade... they plan to charge me to use my computer. Except I don't use my computer for crap games and such  so they're out of luck. They did cost me $200 for a new printer. I forgot that Win10 did that to printers. My forgetfulness. Not a free upgrade at all.

BTW, I checked with the HP software site and there was no software to make my printer work. What a surprise. Bend over and grab my ankles.

My biggest gripe with Win10 is the fact that my own laptop cannot access my own files stored on my own internal hard drive without a network connection detected. In other words, if you don't have a WiFi connection, don;t save anything to your hard drive. Use USB drives or external, unless you intend to have an "always on" network connection.

I get it...99% of the population do have an "always on" network in their homes. I did not until I upgraded to Win10. I do now, but only because I need to in order to access my own files, which I find utterly flabbergasting, but...what can you do?

I think it is part of Microsoft's effort to convert everything to cloud-based storage, and get people away from hard drives, but I hate "the cloud". Too many vulnerabilities, in my opinion...

my wife's newer dell laptop has issues with windows 10 where it'll hang on a reboot/shutdown when it's doing windows 10 updates..quite annoying, actually.

I intend to not use the cloud. I want my data. I don't trust others to safeguard it. That's just foolish.