Are We Lost wrote:

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I think the biggest of these was to suggest Linux had less market share. In fact Linux is the more professional operating system preferred by corporates. Almost twice as many websites use Linux as Windows. 

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Over the past twenty years I have done in-house consulting work for perhaps 20 major companies in Australia - not one of these companies ran Linux on their desktop PCs.

I agree Linux is often used for applications such as servers which have little to no contact with non technical people but until it becomes as easy to use as Windows it will never develop a significant public user base.

dorian wrote:

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I don't understand why Linux isn't taught in schools. I can just imagine the billions of dollars that would be saved if we as a nation could wean ourselves off Windows (and Apple).

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 Guess we could say exactly the same about healthy eating, imagine the health benefits and monetary saving if we could wean kids of junk food.

Ain't gonna happen.

 

Santa wrote:

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Wanderlust wrote:

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Microsoft is ensuring the mass purchase of new hardware, as very few systems currently in use will not have high enough specs. E.g TPM 2.0, UEFI, Secure boot, 64 bit, etc

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Not really, MS will continue support for W10 until Oct 2025, no one is forcing you to go to W11.

Bear in mind many people are still happily using XP Vista and other early releases, I suspect many will continue to use W10 for years after MS discontinue support.

For those of us who must have the very latest, guess they will have to do whatever is necessary.

Can't see myself moving past 10 anytime in the near future.

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 XP does a perfect job for what I need on my PCs.

Still running OS10.6.8 on my Mac as it is the last version for some programs I have. Couldn't do the previous census as the OS was too old.

 

If I buy a new DSLR camera I will also need to buy a new computer & new software. Vicious circle!

Are We Lost wrote:

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Thanks Buzz for pointing out the illogical comments made in favour of Microsoft.

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Illogical! no one has made any illogical claims.

We all make choices throughout life, based on what we feel will be best suited to our needs, be it education, housing, cars, sporting teams, political parties or life partners, the list is endless.

Some may be better at it than others, no matter, once we have made a choice most of us are committed and will usually strongly defend the decision we have made.

Now and again some of us become fanatical about our choice to point of being obsessive, we all know just how irritating fanatics are.

Some of the most irritating fanatics are converts, whether they be lifestyle choices or religious, for some reason they feel compelled to engage in a crusade to convert the word to their newly discovered enlightenment, just human nature I guess.

 

 

Umpie1 wrote:

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Download the PC Health app for windows and when you run it you will find out if your PC/Laptop will run W11. If it won't you will still get W10 updates.

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 Seems MS released the PC health app while it was half baked, causing mass confusion so theyhave pulled it.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/324212-microsoft-clarifies-windows-11-requirements-pulls-pc-health-check-app

Yes, have installed Windows 11 on my laptop. Waiting for it to be offered for the 2 desktops

Took about 2 hours to update, everything on the laptop still works, yep, all good so far.

Laptop is a relatively new.

-- Edited by JeffRae on Friday 29th of October 2021 07:57:08 PM

Opinions here for and against upgrading your current Windows operating system to Version 11 would be similar to upgrading your tow vehicle.

Perhaps?

Ours is May 2020, so "dozey" says it will accept update, and has got a new notice that update is available. Given I reckon 10 was 3 steps backwards and annoying little things, can only hope 11 is better?

JeffRae wrote:

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You have 10 days to revert to Win 10 if you change your mind.
I made an image of Win 10 before upgrading

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I think that is a great idea. I am now in the habit of creating a fresh image every so often.

A couple of years ago I updated my W7 laptop to W10. It gave some message about "Unable to continue" (don't recall the details). So I accepted the (only) option to revert to the original system. When that completed, there were a few problems. Many drivers would not work and deleting/resinstalling the hardware would not work. After multiple "try this" etc, there was no way I could get wifi to work so finished up taking it to my daughter's place so I could connect via ethernet cable.

With still no luck I had no choice but format the drive and start from scratch with a fresh install. I did so with W10 and that worked fine.

I loathe the user interface standard with W10, but with lots of tweaks I am mostly happy with it.

 

Windows 10 will be supported with updates until 2025. Windows 11 is introduced to give greater security against hackers/scammers - according to M$. This is why older hardware won't handle Win 11. I will continue to use Win 10 until 2025, and will then consider seriously changing to Linux. I am already using open source software such as Libre Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. I have no need to annually subscribe to M$ for their software, although I don't mind the occasional donation to open source providers.