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We are required to use only Windows 7 and nothing over IE8 because of compatibility issues with our network.
That's what I did too: converted my XP to Linux. It works, but the Linux bugs and quirks are painful. I still like it, but it's not painless.
I'm curious about what bugs and quirks you're experiencing with Mint. Over the years, Fedora has become very stable and non-buggy for me.
Interesting. I just added the user "Test" to my Fedora 23 system and it worked fine. (Not to show off, but just to see if there was a problem.)
I recall that setting different user accounts required the use of lower case letters only. If you tried to use an upper case letter, Linux didn't tell you want the problem was, it would merely fail. Took me forever to even learn what the issue was.Just stuff like that. I like it, but it's liking an old hunting dog. You take the good with the bad.
Glad they fixed it.
AFAIK LINUX and its flavors have always been upper/lower case sensitive at all levels of syntax. So GREP and grep are different concepts in LINUX.
misc data points:MS does not force an upgrade to windows 10. It offers and nags but it doesn't sneak it in on you.W10 is a 64-bit operating system. If your computer doesn't do 64 bits throughout, the upgrade will fail. If the upgrade fails, don't try to force it. YOU will come to grief and you will blame it on Microsoft.W10 does automatically do updates. Updates are not the same as upgrades, and this topic is so confused between the two concepts that I am not going to comment on the original post.You have some control over the scheduling/restarts, but for at least while the opsys is being offered for free, one of the terms is that your computer SHALL accept updates. As has been pointed out, almost everything, including W10 updates, can be defeated. Clever people can make the updates not happen.Last week (or over the weekend) a MS update came down that was not successful loading on many computers. Mine was one. However, the update process noticed that the update package was broken and uninstalled it for me automagically.AFAIK LINUX and its flavors have always been upper/lower case sensitive at all levels of syntax. So GREP and grep are different concepts in LINUX.That is all.
My old G4 MacBook 11 years old and going strong. It's fine for online forums, YouTube, and word processing. Getting slower on many sites and flash updates are no more. Hope to get a little more out of it before another Apple takes its place. Never a virus in all that time.
And could we please stop derailing the thread by telling experiences with total different OS�s?
True, but as I understand the problem described by sign216, his Linux Mint system would fail to create a user account if any capital letters were used in the account name.Edit: apparently some Linux systems default to not allowing capital letters in user names, since it's considered bad form in UNIX-like systems. The default behavior can be changed with some magical incantations. So it's not a bug, it's a conscious decision by the packager.
I *wanted" the W10 upgrade and I'm very happy with it. I think it's a bit improvement over 8/8.1 and I wanted to get it while it was free.But then again, I also have fuel injection and I like the V9 ! John
Whether you call it a bug, or a conscious design choice, the net effect is the same: it's a Linux quirk that causes a huge pain for a new user. I.e. I'm talking about not allowing capital letters when choosing user acount names.I love having a system that's an alternative to the corporate giants (Apple, Microsoft, etc), but the Linux quirks have their own price to pay. Nothing's free, right?
You make a good point, but Windows has at least an equal number of quirks. They're been around for so long that they've been forgotten. One example is having to select "Start" to stop the system. Admittedly I don't know if the latest versions are still that way, but it was true last time I used Windows.And Apple... I once spent half an hour trying to figure out how to select the printer I wanted to use. I assumed it would be somewhere in a group of printer options labeled "print" or something similar, but no, I had to select "Chooser".
Windows isn't the only OS that you use Start to get to "Shut Down" the computer, Linux (Ubuntu) does it that way also.
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Just what I've heard?
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