Woooo I have a new laptop

[Pool Hall Ace]

It's an ASUS X502C series. Nothing fancy, I like it so far. But I don't like Windows at all.

On my old laptop, I was using Puppy Linux. I used Mint for a while and was happy with it, but it crashed for no apparent reason, so I went back to Puppy.

I'm so naiive, I don't even know what you are supposed to do first. I know what *not* to do: purchase the Norton antivirus shit they try to sell you.

Should I bother to try and learn Windows 8?

[PoliticAverse]

1. Depends. Is there some Windows-only software you want to run? n/t

[Pool Hall Ace]

3. Hmmm no, probably not.

[PoliticAverse]

6. The only reason I run Windows is because there are programs I want to run that require it

(won't run on Linuxes). And I only run windows on my main machine, my other computers
run some relative of Uni tm).

[sir pball]

7. Why not virtualize?

Slap VirtualBox on there, or VMWare if you're feeling spendy, image your current drive, and Bob's your uncle. (Or, perish the thought, virtualize Linux...the Win kernel itself is good enough as a host and with modern hardware and plenty of RAM you shouldn't get a performance hit..)

[ChromeFoundry]

2. You should learn Windows 8

because learning something new is always a good idea.

And - Because you may actually like it. You already got it; may as well drive it around the block a few times.
Or - It will make you love your favorite Linux distro *THAT* much more!

I've found that Win 8 is usually a "love it" or "hate it" relationship... I find that Linux people usually tend to "hate it".
If you like what they have done with iOS 7.. you will feel right at home on Win 8.

If you would ever consider putting an Apple Logo sticker on your vehicle or getting a tattoo of said logo... then you will not like it or anything produced by Microsoft.

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. Okay, I'll learn it.

I thought at one time this group had a pinned thread on best freeware. Do people still like Gizmo's Freeware website ? Is Mozilla Firefox still considered one of the better web browsers? I feel like I've been out of the loop for so long.

[whistler162]

5. One link

http://www.classicshell.net/

[RoccoR5955]

8. Like it... LOL n/t

[ChromeFoundry]

9. There is always that slight chance...

Slight as it may be.. there are people out there that like it better.

[RoccoR5955]

10. Yeah.

Those who know that Windows 8 is actually version 6.2. Windows version 6.0 was Vista, Windows Seven was version 6.1, and Windows Eight is version 6.2.
It's unbelievable that people will buy this crap. Personally, I call it Vista, warmed over, or warmed over a couple of times. You know what you get when you patch poop with poop, don't you?

Yeah, windows pays my bills, so I guess I shouldn't complain, but it is quite the buggy hog, if you ask me.

[PowerToThePeople]

11. Debian. n/t

[Pool Hall Ace]

12. Oh, my brother uses Debian, and he likes it!

[PowerToThePeople]

13. Mint/Ubuntu/Crunchbang

and many others are all based off of Debian. Why not just stick with the "Daddy" distro.?



*Disclaimer-I have been known to use other "easy setup" distros on some of my devices. My primary systems are all Debian though.