Yeah, no worries. I help out people troubleshooting random stuff online all the time: I’m used to not being listened to. It’s just often very bad with to tinker with windows.old directly. I’ve done it too, it’s just a bad plan. 
For WPV IIRC you need to download the registry keys so that it’s registered properly and then set it as default. I presume you already restored the registry keys?
Or try
Linux isn’t for everyone.
Linux is very much a OS for Power users, IT Professionals, and enthusiasts
Linux isn’t good choice for those who aren’t computer savy or any PC gamer.
You need to edit the registry
Have you tried IrfanView? It’s a great image viewer with much more functionality than Photo Viewer.
I don’t eat Penguin…
Disagree. Anyone with a brain can install mint and read the documentation if they come across any problems.
Also, Linux isn’t an OS. It’s a kernel.
If anything i have an easier time navigating through mint than i do in windows.
Isn’t Linux Mint schtick that it’s less like Linux and more like Windows, so that it makes it easier for people to switch over?
It’s the closest thing to it, yeah. Too bad that even in it’s “simplest” form, it still becomes a disaster to even savvy PC users making a Windows to Linux switch the moment they have to build their own drivers because whatever comes from the repositories won’t work for your device. 
Actually you are wrong, there people now on SRK that can’t even be bothered with an off the shelf Windows PC for basic PC gaming.
And you want people to use Mint, that POS? The driver issues alone make it not worth wild.
Usefulness of a OS depends on what applications it has available.
And Yes Linux is an OS. Without a Kernel all you have is a bunch of apps and a compiler.
And I just got a brand new PC basically just months ago, new CPU architecture and MB Chip set, I don’t feel like scouring the internet to hand code my own chipset and CPU drivers.
I did it once for someone’s Wifi adapter, scour the net for a D-link Driver, found it’s shit, look for the manufacture of the chip on the adapter, get them to send me source code, hand edit their Unix drivers (and looking for hex values) so the person can use it with Ubuntu and Mac OS. Never again.
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No freezes since I updated the BIOS. Guess that may have been the issue. Time will tell I suppose.
Thanks, Preppy. My pictures now open the way I want them to.
That’s even worse. I’m not even goin’ to that length. That’s the “fuck this” point. I’m just talking about having to grab the driver source and compile. Even THAT is nothing short of obnoxious and rife with failure and frustration. For the most part, the second you find yourself in the terminal window typing “sudo” to do something to get your shit working, the average PC user should walk away and never return.
Ive never had a driver recognition problem for any Linux based operating system.
My I ask what your hardware specs?
I know some of the new Ryzen stuff had it’s share of issues till BIOS updates came in.
Ah, didn’t notice this post till now. I dunno, I took that fucker back. It froze up two or three more times since the last time I posted and I just said screw it, and returned it. Got that fuckin’ thing and I wasn’t even using it really, I was just waiting for it to freeze so I could try and diagnose the problem. Screw that, I’ll just get a different one.
Anyway, seeing as this is the Windows 10 thread - I liked Windows 10 while I had it. I’ll continue to use it with my next laptop. Some things confused me but I suppose that’s just normal and something that I’ll just adjust to the more I use it. I havent used any other OS since W7 came out and before that it was Win98 I think.
P.S. This laptop I’m using now (my friend gave it to me a year or two ago) had Vista on it. I put W7 on it shortly after getting it.
Edit - I do know that there was no Ryzen anything in it. I havent been lookin’ at the PC thread much since I don’t really have a gaming PC anymore…is Ryzen the new CPU from AMD?
Windows is a Kernel as well. NT kernel
Agreed
Yes calling Linux an Kernel instead of a OS is some Richard Stallman level bullshit.
Stallman is mad he (or rather students working for him) never figured out how to reverse engineer the Unix kernel, and here comes at the time college student Linus Torvalds was able to do in months what Stallman could not do in years.
Windows been using the same NT kernel since Windows NT 3.1 back in 1993, made from a workstation to a all around kernel with Windows 2000 and stayed ever since.
Microsoft haven’t use the NT label in almost 20 years, yet here we are having a thread about an OS that uses the Windows NT 6.2 Kernel. Should we change the thread title to Windows NT 6.2? No.
I hope that someone was a female gamer compensated you with a BJ or $$ or some shit. Like damn nigga, all that insane work :looney: :looney: .
Unfortunately no, it was not the case.
It was a professor of history who insist of using a Windows only USB Wifi Adapter with his crap Mac PC. He was not a art teacher I can’t get why he insist on using a mac for word processing.
For a Professor of history, the guy was an idiot (I will not cover all the reasons here, but he the guy who leave a gas stove on with the pilot light off and not realize it)
Fortunately he pays well.