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RIGHTisRIGHT

I gave up using PCs years ago the last one I had was using Widows Vista.
I got fed up virus scans and disk defragmentation.
I use Mac so I have never used Windows 8 or 10.
On my last Mac I had Windows 7 installed on a disc partition but I deleted it because whenever I used it loads of updates were waiting.
Not an Apple fan as such I will only use a Samsung or HTC phone.

For me I use the computer for watching movies and playing music a bit of Youtube some message boards and email that is it.

So my question is what kind of device are you using to post on boards and how hassle free an experience does it provide?

Is Windows 10 a pain free experience these days?
Are the days of nasty porn filled pop ups gone?

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Gwynplaine

Ruu wrote: »

Just upgraded to Windows 95.

Very fancy. I'm due an upgrade soon, I'm going for the Nokia 5110. It has Snake, and you can change the cover on it. And the best part, a fully charged battery lasts about 10 days.

Mr. CooL ICE

Windows 10 for gaming, development and general power usage. Has a 4K monitor which I can use to remote desktop into my work PC (3 screens, also Windows 10) and cascade them into the one screen.

OS X (macbook air) was originally purchased to learn iOS development, but is now used as just a laptop and occasionally for music recording. Linux Mint on some old hardware to act as a media center hooked up to the TV.

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I don't think that was ever cool. It was done a lot, but it wasn't cool. :pac:

*raises hand*

Guilty. I wasn't cool then and I still am not cool. My current CPU is a i5 2500K from 2011, but is still perfectly fine for development and gaming.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Work PC has Windows 7
Personal laptop has Windows 10 (only recently upgraded from Windows 7 and haven't used it since the upgrade)
Phone is iOS
Tablet is Android

MarcoAntonio23

Android & Linux Mint

MarkAnthony

Workbench 3.1

diomed

Komplett PC running Windows 7.
The PC is about six years old and good enough for what I do.
Very happy. Use it about ten hours a day.

stimpson

stimpson wrote: »

Gaming Rig: Windows 10
Work Laptop: Windows 10
MacBook: Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6)
Home Server: unRAID (Slackware)
Phone: iOS
Tablet1: iOS
Tablet2: Android
Wifes Laptop/Tablet thing: Windows 10
Wifes work Laptop: Windows 7
TV: Raspberry Pi running RasPlex
TV: Apple TV4 (tvOS)
TV SteamBox: (Steam OS)

I'm pretty sure I've forgotten some...

Just had an offer on Adverts for my MacBook. Looks like I'll be Mac free for the first time in over a decade.

Jordan 199

RIGHTisRIGHT wrote: »

I gave up using PCs years ago the last one I had was using Widows Vista.

Is Windows 10 a pain free experience these days?

I never liked Vista.

Windows 10 is great. One great feature for me is that I can stream games from my Xbox One to my laptop/tablet.

scamalert

OP its vista to blame propably for your bad experience-worst of since 98 or smth like that,win 7,xp were best ones,win 10 is pain in the whole with forced updates,but even that is not so often.

Mac-if you like spending double to use pc or laptop its your choice really they arent superior-more like stupid friendly.

Linux - is slowly gaining popularity,given that its free,only thing most wouldnt like that its not stupid friendly,but given advances in last few years there are tons distributions to choose from,only drawback for many is getting switched from windows environment - since every app has different names and some tasks can be more difficult to do,since you dont get that same layout where programs are in one place or just running single .exe file to install smth,also not much support for games even thou many are diversing like steam so were getting there.

Sleepy

Windows 10 on the work laptop and home PC. TBH, I still miss Windows 7. It and XP before it would be about the zenith of OS design imo. Later versions of Windows and OSX are designed for imbeciles and are infuriatingly difficult to navigate to access the hardware setup.

I like the look of some apple hardware but wouldn't pay the over-the-odds price they command for it and would be replacing the OS as soon as I got it home anyway.

Mobile is an Android but I'm tempted to try a Windows mobile next time out, my 3 years with a company iPhone put me off ever owning an apple product again and it seems like Microsoft have finally gotten their act together in the mobile market.

My *nix experience is extremely limited, mainly command line / FTP connections to web servers. I've a raspberry PI I played with for a few hours but haven't ever found a need to develop the skills in it. Like someone else said, I love the philosophy and that it exists though!

Mars Bar

OS X

I did sound engineering for college and MacBook's were the recommended devices for audio. I'm not doing that any more but I just can't see myself moving back to Windows at any point.

I use Android for mobile.

mcmoustache

I use Windows 7 at work.

At home, I use Windows 7 as well but this is only for gaming. It's a very clean partition with only Steam and a few other applications installed such as anti-virus, malware removers, VLC, winamp, emulators and browsers.

I have Kubuntu on another partition and this is where I spend most of my time. I used to use Ubuntu but they changed the UI sometime around version 12.04 to some tablet hybrid nonsense so I switched to Kubuntu and never looked back. It looks, feels and works very similarly to Windows.

I can understand why linux can be difficult for people. You often need to google the windows equivalent of a program. For example, you might be used to utorrent on windows so you might instead need to use ktorrent on linux. Worse than that, other software such as games or MS Office just won't exist and similar linux programs just won't do.

There's also a few myths still floating around such as linux being command-line only, that there's a lot of text file configuration required and that drivers won't work. I haven't encountered this myself in years but I'm sure that if you use slackware or redhat server that this might be the case. It's not the case with the modern user-friendly distros.

My favourite thing about linux though is that I can browse and download questionable content safely without getting a malware infection. It's not perfectly secure but its market share is low enough on home desktops that it's more profitable for those pesky russians to target Windows.

riclad

One laptop has linux mint on it,
one has windows 7,64bit version.
Gwx Control panel, installed on windows 7 ,as i have no wish to run windows 10.
It stops windows 10 being installed .
All i hear is people having problems with windows 10.
i dont buy new laptops ,so i might never run windows 10.
I think ms want to copy apple,
they are running ads in windows 10,
menu,s and they want people to buy programs from the windows store .
i use android on my phone .
Windows 7 works fine ,i see no point in running windows 10.
People with security updates set to auto install
will wake up soon ,oh look windows 10 is installed whether you want it or not.
good for maybe the 1per cent of users who might stream games .
IF you want a fast secure private os,
then linux is the best choice ,especially for older pcs or laptops .

Hugo Stiglitz

I've been a Mac man since 2007. I'll never go back to Windows. That being said, Macs aren't perfect either, but I'm just so used to them now.

Antar Bolaeisk

mcmoustache wrote: »

There's also a few myths still floating around such as linux being command-line only, that there's a lot of text file configuration required and that drivers won't work. I haven't encountered this myself in years but I'm sure that if you use slackware or redhat server that this might be the case. It's not the case with the modern user-friendly distros.

It just doesn't feel like your using any flavour of linux unless you've recompiled the kernal at least once in the last day or so

Capt'n Midnight

Why choose ?
VM's , remote desktop and remote command line are great
cygwin means you get a better command line for windows

Windows 10 is running on 270 million devices.

But Linux is running on billions. Most tablets and smartphones run Android which is a version of Linux. There's about 60 Billion ARM processors out there.

My satellite receiver runs Linux. And thanks to some nice people out there it now has background apps for web management and streaming and other good stuff.

Currently waiting for my £8 Raspberry Pi Zero computer to arrive

Eggonyerface

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I don't think that was ever cool. It was done a lot, but it wasn't cool. :pac:

It was about as cool as SigPo

One eyed Jack

riclad wrote: »

IF you want a fast secure private os,
then linux is the best choice ,especially for older pcs or laptops .

If you want a fast, secure, private os, then get to know your os inside out, and don't run it on antique hardware. Windows will run on older hardware too if you skin it down to the same level as some linux distros, but for the average user, they'll be able to do fcuk all on it. By that standard, I've seen some places still using DOS on ancient hardware, because it does a very specific job, and it does it very well. It's suitable for it's purpose.

If you want really want fast, secure and private on old hardware, there's BeOS... for sadomasochists!! :pac:

Agricola

Put off upgrading my gaming pc to Windows 10 til now but finally got it all installed and playing nicely driver wise etc. Picked up a cheap hard drive, made a clone of the new Windows drive for fast recovery in the event of things going tits up. Happy days.
Still have Win 7 on my laptop. I'll probably put 10 on it before July is out although theres not much need.
Along with those it's just a really crappy Sony smartphone with some ancient android version on it and a cheap android tablet that I use primarily for Youtube in bed.

[Deleted User]

Mostly Windows myself.

Windows 10 on the desktop and 8.1 on the laptop and tablet. In theory, 10 would work fine on the laptop and tablet but I'd have to disable updates since it insists on replacing working drivers with broken ones without my consent. :rolleyes: That's my only real complaint with 10, I can use it just fine otherwise.

I used to have a Mac Mini G4 back in the day and have some experience with OS X but I'd by no means be a pro at it. It's not an OS I'd ever dismiss though.

Phone-wise I'm iOS all the way. Tried Windows Phone but the lack of apps just annoyed me, even though I liked the OS itself.

Chain Smoker

Laptop: Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04, will be replacing windows 10 with Hackintosh whenever I get the time to
Tablet: Whatever the most recent stable Cyanogenmod for the Nook HD+ is
Phone: Think it's still some custom KitKat variant, cheap Chinese model so I can't update beyond that
eReader: Android 1.7 (yes)

Keep meaning to get myself a super compact external SSD so I can just carry that around and run all my work stuff off whatever computer I can get my hands on wherever.

Infini

Who need a macintosh when you can have a Hackintosh! Everything on the one machine! ^^

Chain Smoker

Infini2 wrote: »

Who need a macintosh when you can have a Hackintosh! Everything on the one machine! ^^

It seems like a nightmare to install though, fortunately my hardware is mostly compatible but I still have to wipe my hard drive entirely to install it

[Deleted User]

Infini2 wrote: »

Who need a macintosh when you can have a Hackintosh! Everything on the one machine! ^^

Chain Smoker wrote: »

It seems like a nightmare to install though, fortunately my hardware is mostly compatible but I still have to wipe my hard drive entirely to install it

Reminds me of the days of NT 4.0, having to carefully pick your hardware to run it properly. :pac: Having said that, the motherboard in my desktop PC was picked for its compatibility with OS X.

Chain Smoker

Karsini wrote: »

Reminds me of the days of NT 4.0, having to carefully pick your hardware to run it properly. :pac: Having said that, the motherboard in my desktop PC was picked for its compatibility with OS X.

It's not the nightmare it apparently once was with OS X, apparently if you buy just about any HP laptop these days, it'll be ready to run OS X these days with minimal fuss.

Wi-fi card on mine isn't compatible, everything else is though so I'll figure it out. Not even fussed about OS X, I just want to get it running.

[Deleted User]

Chain Smoker wrote: »

It's not the nightmare it apparently once was with OS X, apparently if you buy just about any HP laptop these days, it'll be ready to run OS X these days with minimal fuss.

Wi-fi card on mine isn't compatible, everything else is though so I'll figure it out. Not even fussed about OS X, I just want to get it running.

Hmm, interesting to hear that.

I'm still running a fairly old Core i5 Sandy Bridge desktop. Just had no need to change it, still runs really sweet with the SSD.

sozbox

OS X and iOS. Tried everything else, settled on these eventually. OS X is definitely not getting better but it is better than Windows in that it gets out of your way to get work done. On Windows I seemed to spend half my time closing alert boxes.

Android didn't do it for me either, don't know how you can compare it to iOS, it was very clunky back when I used it. Given Apple's eco system I doubt I'll ever move.

Infini

Its easier to install it as a Virtual OS these days since apple now uses intel hardware from what I was reading. Regardless being able to run OSX on a pc is a better solution since apple tends to use lower spec hardware in its own machines.

Jordan 199

Karsini wrote: »

Mostly Windows myself.

Windows 10 on the desktop and 8.1 on the laptop and tablet. In theory, 10 would work fine on the laptop and tablet but I'd have to disable updates since it insists on replacing working drivers with broken ones without my consent. :rolleyes: That's my only real complaint with 10, I can use it just fine otherwise.

Is that tablet the Acer you showed me a few years ago?

[Deleted User]

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Is that tablet the Acer you showed me a few years ago?

Yep, same one.