Message from @Gespa
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I dont think they have a Live CD
To my understanding Microsoft no longer offers direct upgrades for windows 10.
Windows update on my laptop says otherwise, Gespa
shame. i suppose the only way to test it would be to sling a spare hard drive in
You’ll notice I said “to my understanding”, Eccles.
Could resize your partition and install on that, System11
Bit of a risk attached
yeah id rather not break it, i have one of the old drives. its a raid supporting system and i replaced the twins when one died and put a single SSD in
Sounds like you have a plan then
Good luck with whatever you decide to do
I quit trying to upgrade my laptop because it wasn't sufficiently important, and microsoft "professionals" were just being shit
if it cant take win 10 ill have to find linux alternatives for a few things and do that
I tried Linux for a year - it's shit
Shouldn’t be hard. There’s plenty of resources online
Ehh not shit. Just different.
Also really depends on the distro you want to go with.
Tried a few different ones, but mostly they suffered from the thing linux has suffered since i first tried it 20 years ago - poor hardware support
That and Steam linux support... just isn't there yet
Better than it was the last time i tried it, but still not there yet
ive been using linux so long i made my own distro back in the slackware days. i dont use it because i have to use speech recognition software and it behaves better on windows
dont use it at home*
that and the unholy hell which is current desktop offerings. what a damn mess
one of those times 'everyone doing their own thing' just hurts the platform
I found it frustrating as the last thing I wanted to do after a day at work is come home and have to fuck around trying to build drivers and edit config files
THat's very much a thing for teenagers and bright eyed young idealists like Coolitic
not really, my girlfriend is computer illiterate, i built her a desktop machine, she just uses firefox and some awful flash games
it just works
everyone doing their own thing hurting the platform, you say?
yes, that can be a thing
kinda like everyone making their own gaming launcher to make their titles exclusive and unnecessarily difficult to obtain and manage, all the while running continuously in the background to mine data?
golly gee if only there was some platform that took a relatively hands-off approach as a game vendor and aggregate
thats the worst analogy ive seen this week
But it applies all the same.
you're likening applications to frameworks that support applications
You say that as if it can't be applicable.
it isn't even in the same ballpark.
But it is
no it isnt, you dont need game 'launchers' at all, you just require a way to download the installer. now if someone decided to write their own html version and you needed a special vendor specific browser to download it, then you'd have an analogy to work with. that isnt what i suggested or anyone would do though in the case of steam
and its a million miles away from basic shit like "oh, my entire windowing toolkit doesn't work"
Sure you don't *need* them, but in this current age of PC gaming, they are necessary to actually play said games.