Hard Drive?
back then this looked like a leap to the future.
Indeed, you had to wait few more years for Windows to get those same features
(also it had the best painting program)
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I remember trying to install a Linux version on my laptop, cant remember which version, but after installation there was flicker. Also since it uses two GPUs, switching from one to the other for games is very tedious. So I deleted the partition.
On Desktop PC I have both Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 15.04
No use in upgrading to Windows 10, system is not that new to take advantage of the new features. Besides if I upgrade I want to keep the previous OS together with the new one.
Only Linux provides that option. Ubuntu works fine, unfortunately the latest SDLMAME version screwed things over and wont run well. Also there is tearing on full screen for some videos and PCSX2 emulator.
A lot of people are unclear about why AMD doesnât perform on Linux. Well, guess what? nVidia doesnât perform on it either. Sure, the driver installation is much much easier, but thatâs not the same as performance. Neither one of them can really make their cards perform equally to Windows performance because neither one of them has a development team that is dedicated to Linux. Linux is a side-project for them at best. They provide the drivers for the community and contribute to Linux because they should. When the gaming community starts supporting Linux more broadly, then their support will have to step up in order to compensate.
Thatâs why graphics drivers suck on Linux. They arenât simple like some stupid driver for an external hard drive or some shit. I could write one of those if I really needed to. graphics, though? Nope. Thatâs a different beast altogether.
I have experience with Windows 3.1/95/98/2000/ME/XP/Vista/7/8.1.
I have used OSX some.
I have extensive Linux knowledge and have used FreeBSD some.
I still want to try out Haiku, I may actually drop that on my old laptop.
I use the Nintendo OS nigga⌠THIGLYFE
I dunno if this was the exact model, but this is where I learned computers along side a Macintosh:
Doesnât that look like Apple?
Anyways, I remember playing Rogue with a tile set on Atari.
First time I first put a character into permanent limbo rather than death; the slow bliss of time passed until the bits were eventually obliterated.
Real life purgatory.
http://www.n8ftl.com/maemo/images/screen/rogue2.png
I think this was the computer my parents bought where I played some educational games my Dad was learning about to bring to school where he taught:
http://apple-history.com/iici
Well, I played with Haiku. Not bad IMO, I like the layout, and it seems intuitive once you get used to it.
The problem is how archaic things are, the severe lack of support by developers, and the lack of things that I would need. There is no downloadable Asian language support; those were all created in the days of BeOS and have no working download links anymore. It looks like no one is arsed to make a new one as well. Mozilla and Google seem to have no interest in porting a modern browser over. Iâm not even sure if thereâs an office suite available that makes it viable to even do word processing on. Moreover, itâs been on its last Alpha build for 3 years, and everything has been done via nightlies instead.
I like it, I could see why BeOS was so powerful back in the day, but no one really cares anymore.
Probably going to load BSD onto my old laptop.
Why BSD? BSD would be even worse off than Linux. For one thing, if youâre going to use most OSS, itâs usually a Linux port or requires the use of a Linux compatibility layer. Then, youâd still have to have all the Linux libraries installed on BSD, on top of BSD libraries. At that point, you might as well skip those steps and just use Linux.
I tried FreeBSD. The boot and system manager was ridiculously slow. I didnât care for the package management and most software that had a Linux equivalent was at least 1 or 2 versions behind the Linux version.
If youâre considering BSD, just use Linux. If you were interested in FreeBSD, then you should check out Gentoo. Similar in usage from a package management standpoint and doesnât force systemd or OpenRC on you, you get a choice on the system management you want. It has pretty up to date software and you can tweak the fuck out the OS, tailor it to your machine.
Linux can be great, depending on the OS you use. Some of the more restricted ones like Ubuntu arenât fun to use. Arch is a great distro, IMO itâs a good step to get on your way to Gentoo. I think if anyone is going to use Linux, then Gentoo is THE distro to use because youâll learn everything you need to know about maintaining a system and get good at it. The package management is probably the best one Iâve come across. If it wasnât for Gentoo existing, and if BSD software was just as up to date as the Linux versions, then Iâd probably be on FreeBSD. Then I just think of all the drawbacks to using BSD, which is a shame because the PS4 is using BSD so youâd think PC ports would have a straight to BSD version, but nope, look at shit like SF5 requiring DirectX11. Ugh. They could have left all the OpenGL shit in tact since itâs fucking cross platform, and would have a relatively easy time porting to a *nix.
SFV is not ported to Linux because thereâs no money in Linux
If they developed with OpenGL from the start, the amount of time itâd take to port would be negligible.
As far as why BSD? Eh, something different, and itâs only on my secondary laptop, so I donât need much. Basically Chrome/LibreOffice.
Although Iâve used Gentoo & Arch in the past, Iâd go back to them quite possibly. Iâve just never done well with Gentoo, but Iâm sure with the experience I have NOW, it wouldnât be so hard.
At the end of the day, use what works for you. I use mint on my laptop cause windows takes 30 minutes just to open mozilla, and that slowdown is nonexistent on mint. My windows partition is probably filled with viruses but I donât feel like fixing it.
Latest releases of the 3 major operating systems:
Apple 10.11.6 (July 18, 2016)
Linux 4.7.3 (7 September 2016)
Windows 10.0.14393.105 (August 31, 2016)
Latest releases on the 3 major operating systems:
Apple 10.12.2 (December 16, 2016)
Linux 4.9.1 (January 6, 2017)
Windows 10.0.14393.576 (December 13, 2016)
Latest releases on the 3 major operating systems:
10.12.3 (January 23, 2017)
4.10.3 (March 15, 2017)
10.0.14393.953 (March 14, 2017)
As long as I can run UX Theme patcher, Classic Shell, and Kill Cortana; I am good.
Latest releases on the 3 major operating systems:
10.12.5 (May 15, 2017)
4.12 (July 2, 2017)
10.0.15063.447 (June 27, 2017)
Windows ver. 10.0.HOLY SHIT WANNACRY VARIANTS! 
:tup:
I think this dude in the video is wrong
But I let you all be your own judge.
I think free windows makes sense. Mostly because Windows is absolute garbage anyway. But Microsoftâs influence is waning. Xbox flopped, the desktop is becoming more niche and windows phone is just lol.
Unless you play games or use some serious software for something, you should just use Linux on your computer. Iâve made most of the old people in my family do just this and the calls I get for questions or fixing stuff went down nearly 90%
Alotta government sectors use Linux for their servers now. Also, alotta Apple products are being introduced