Love Ubuntu.. When I get offered updates on Ubuntu, *I* choose when to reboot, *if* a reboot is *even* necessary... Back when I still used Windows, it seemed like every damn update wanted a reboot... Soooo glad I don't have to worry about MS problems anymore...
Every few days I read yet another story about the abuse MS keeps heaping on the poor souls who, for whatever reason, still use Windows 10.. Part of me feels sorry for those who either *must* use Windows, for whatEVER reason, or those who just aren't aware of there being viable alternatives to Windows.. And part of my laughs my damn ass off at all the abuse that MS inflicts on their victims. I supported/used Windows for 20 years as a user and a sysadmin. During my career I also used Linux quite a bit, having discovered it via Slackware in 1994. After I retired, I decided I was done with anything MS, and moved all of my systems to Linux.. Couldn't be happier..
Next from "Poettering Labs", previously known as Redhat...... PoetterIX, All the software you've come to love, all rolled into one (previously known as Redhat/Debian)/s
And frequently rendering pages as blank white, not catching Captchas, so I keep Vivaldi nearby when signing up for a new website, where I'd expect to see a captcha... If FF keeps going down the shitter, I may look at just biting the bullet and switching 100% to Vivaldi.. Quite a nice browser...
Oh yes.. I've used plain-jane Debian quite a bit on several hosted VMs I run, mainly because the VPS vendor didn't have any non-EOL'ed Ubuntu images.. All they had, in 2015, mind you, were a bunch of EOL'ed (12.10/13.04/13.10) non-LTS versions, which nobody in their right mind would use on an internet-facing host, therefore I used/still use Debian there.. I am unaware that systemd can be removed from the current releases of Debian, which is why I started looking at Devuan (or howEVER you spell it) which is supposed to be Debian_withOUT_systemd.....
I seriously doubt Patrick Volkerding is gonna go down the systemd "rathole"... Although if for some insane reason, he did do that to Slackware, like you say, theres always the 'BSD's, which wouldn't be so bad to replace Linux...
Umm.. As far as I'm concerned, the next LTS, that being 14.04, is just fine... Its the following one, 16.04 that DEFINITELY "went off the rails", that being systemd.. All my systems are staying on 14.04 until close to its EOL, in April 2019, giving me 2 more years to find a non-systemd alternative to Ubuntu.. I'd rather stay with a Debian-derived OS, but its looking like I may be going back to my Linux "roots", that being Slackware, where I started with Linux in 1994..
During the now-long-past time I tried Windows 10, on a system with Nvidia graphics, the ONLY "Nvidia" graphics driver that gave me any problems was the shitshow one that WU insists upon installing, no matter what the setting that is *supposed* to tell WU to leave system drivers the FUCK ALONE.. With the WU driver installed, the system blew endless BSOD's pointing to that driver.. If I disabled the WU service and installed the correct Nvidia driver from the Nvidia website, all was good in Nvidia-land... Of course, its not a good idea to run Windows without updates, but from what I've seen of Windows 10, its either get malware from Microsoft with updates turned on or malware from other badguys with updates turned off.. I don't worry anymore about this as I'm back on Linux, and laughing my ass off at the abuse MS heaps on those who still use Windows...
Also, there's the privacy issues with Win10 (Microsoft calls their key-loggers and spyware "telemetry") that all governments should be wary of.
I'd change the last part of that sentence from "that all governments should be wary of" to "that all people/businesses should be wary of"... I'd bet all of this "telemetry" crap is *not* just desired by MS but was requested by the government.. After all the NSA needs *something* to fill that giant Utah datacenter they spent so many billions on....
OOSU10 is good, so long as its developers keep up with the "whack-a-mole" changes that MS keeps throwing in.. Something that you or OOSU10 turns off today can very likely be turned back on tommorrow, ESPECIALLY if its one of the spyware aspects of 10.. ANYbody who places ANY trust in Microsoft has seriously misplaced their trust... I used/supported MS products for 20 years as a sysadmin and when I retired I decided I was DONE with anything MS...
THAT is the BEST thing you could do for yourself.. Run Virtualbox on your Windows system and try different Linux distros till you find one you like, personally I like Kubuntu, KDE and Ubuntu, but your tastes may vary.. Once you're happy with it and are somewhat familiar with it, yank that Windows bandage off.... back up your data, install that Linux distro to the machine and just blow away Windows.. I did that nearly 7 years ago and now I sit back and laugh my ass off at all of the stories I see on the internet about the latest MS abuse of those who *still* use Windows... Quite entertaining...
When I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my current Dell Latitude, I had zero problems, everything worked right "out of the box".. including the wifi AND that wifi was a Broadcom, which I recall a few years ago used to be a serious pain in the ass to get working on Linux... Not the case anymore...
I, on the other hand, do the exact opposite, run Linux just fine on a Dell Latitude, and for the extremely rare times I need Windows, I run a Windows 7 virtualbox VM, using the OEM product key from said Dell laptop..
I do the same thing, but with Dell offlease Latitudes/Precisions.. Currently using a Latitude E5410 with 8Gb of ram, an i3 processor, and Kubuntu 14.04.. Works like a champ...
I've only used Lyft once, from the airport to home after a trip, and was pleasantly surprised.. Since I'm retired, I'd considered driving for Uber/Lyft, but once I found all of the endless goverment bullshit I had to go thru (3 fucking business licenses, state, county, and city, for a total of over $500/year), I decided to forget about it.. Since then I've talked to some people who drive for Uber/Lyft locally and it becomes glaringly apparent I dodged a LARGE bullet by skipping them....
If you don't like it, install Linux. Or a BSD. Or whatever you like.
Don't you worry your astroturfing AC head over that, as an ever-increasing number of us HAVE dumped anything MS and enjoy our computers FAR more than we did when still using Windows.. I used/supported MS products for 20 years as a user and a sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with all things MS, and one day deleted the Win7 partition on my systems, reinitialized grub and haven't looked back.. I'm supremely entertained by all the abuse MS heaps on those poor suckers who put up with said abuse by continuing to use MS products..
In case you hadn't noticed, Obama is no longer in office... Just thought I'd mention it since you seem to have been under a rock for the last few months...
Oh my... Maren Jenson.. When the original BSG was on, I had a serious letch for that gorgeous lady... She still looks FANTASTIC at 61.. Might say I still have a letch for her.....
Yet another reason, if we really *need* another, to quit using MS products. I used/supported MS products for 20 years as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with Windows on my personal systems. I had been dualbooting Win7 and Linux, but once I made the decision, I simply deleted the Win7 partition, and reinstalled grub. After 6 years of zero MS, I've not missed it a bit.. In fact, I'm forced to use Windows in a part-time volunteer support position with a local charity, and I find that using Windows now, after being 100% Linux for going on 7 years, is very unnatural. After seeing all of the multiple forms of abuse MS heaps on those who still use Windows, I couldn't be happier with my decision...
All of my Linux machines have Nvidia graphics, and I use the proprietary Nvidia "blob" driver, as its FAR better than the clusterfuck that is the opensource driver, but I'll tell you one damn thing.. The day they mandate this bullshit "GeForce Experience" spyware crap on Linux installs is the day I join Linus with his middle-finger "FUCK YOU" gesture to Nvidia and dump Nvidia for good.. They may get away with forcing that shit on naive Windows users (look at those who use Windows 10 for a clue), but most Linux folks are not ANYWHERE near that naive and won't stand for spyware on their otherwise pristine systems...
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Love Ubuntu.. When I get offered updates on Ubuntu, *I* choose when to reboot, *if* a reboot is *even* necessary... Back when I still used Windows, it seemed like every damn update wanted a reboot... Soooo glad I don't have to worry about MS problems anymore...
Every few days I read yet another story about the abuse MS keeps heaping on the poor souls who, for whatever reason, still use Windows 10.. Part of me feels sorry for those who either *must* use Windows, for whatEVER reason, or those who just aren't aware of there being viable alternatives to Windows.. And part of my laughs my damn ass off at all the abuse that MS inflicts on their victims. I supported/used Windows for 20 years as a user and a sysadmin. During my career I also used Linux quite a bit, having discovered it via Slackware in 1994. After I retired, I decided I was done with anything MS, and moved all of my systems to Linux.. Couldn't be happier..
Next from "Poettering Labs", previously known as Redhat...... PoetterIX, All the software you've come to love, all rolled into one (previously known as Redhat/Debian) /s
(or *am* I being sarcastic?? wait and see....)
And frequently rendering pages as blank white, not catching Captchas, so I keep Vivaldi nearby when signing up for a new website, where I'd expect to see a captcha... If FF keeps going down the shitter, I may look at just biting the bullet and switching 100% to Vivaldi.. Quite a nice browser...
Yeah.. but not on Ubuntu 12.04_Server.. which is what _I assume_ is having support extended....
Oh yes.. I've used plain-jane Debian quite a bit on several hosted VMs I run, mainly because the VPS vendor didn't have any non-EOL'ed Ubuntu images.. All they had, in 2015, mind you, were a bunch of EOL'ed (12.10/13.04/13.10) non-LTS versions, which nobody in their right mind would use on an internet-facing host, therefore I used/still use Debian there.. I am unaware that systemd can be removed from the current releases of Debian, which is why I started looking at Devuan (or howEVER you spell it) which is supposed to be Debian_withOUT_systemd.....
I seriously doubt Patrick Volkerding is gonna go down the systemd "rathole"... Although if for some insane reason, he did do that to Slackware, like you say, theres always the 'BSD's, which wouldn't be so bad to replace Linux...
Umm.. As far as I'm concerned, the next LTS, that being 14.04, is just fine... Its the following one, 16.04 that DEFINITELY "went off the rails", that being systemd.. All my systems are staying on 14.04 until close to its EOL, in April 2019, giving me 2 more years to find a non-systemd alternative to Ubuntu.. I'd rather stay with a Debian-derived OS, but its looking like I may be going back to my Linux "roots", that being Slackware, where I started with Linux in 1994..
During the now-long-past time I tried Windows 10, on a system with Nvidia graphics, the ONLY "Nvidia" graphics driver that gave me any problems was the shitshow one that WU insists upon installing, no matter what the setting that is *supposed* to tell WU to leave system drivers the FUCK ALONE.. With the WU driver installed, the system blew endless BSOD's pointing to that driver.. If I disabled the WU service and installed the correct Nvidia driver from the Nvidia website, all was good in Nvidia-land... Of course, its not a good idea to run Windows without updates, but from what I've seen of Windows 10, its either get malware from Microsoft with updates turned on or malware from other badguys with updates turned off.. I don't worry anymore about this as I'm back on Linux, and laughing my ass off at the abuse MS heaps on those who still use Windows...
Also, there's the privacy issues with Win10 (Microsoft calls their key-loggers and spyware "telemetry") that all governments should be wary of.
I'd change the last part of that sentence from "that all governments should be wary of" to "that all people/businesses should be wary of"... I'd bet all of this
"telemetry" crap is *not* just desired by MS but was requested by the government.. After all the NSA needs *something* to fill that giant Utah datacenter they spent so many billions on....
Simple: The ONLY way to win with Microsoft is to NOT USE anything Microsoft...
OOSU10 is good, so long as its developers keep up with the "whack-a-mole" changes that MS keeps throwing in.. Something that you or OOSU10 turns off today can very likely be turned back on tommorrow, ESPECIALLY if its one of the spyware aspects of 10.. ANYbody who places ANY trust in Microsoft has seriously misplaced their trust... I used/supported MS products for 20 years as a sysadmin and when I retired I decided I was DONE with anything MS...
THAT is the BEST thing you could do for yourself.. Run Virtualbox on your Windows system and try different Linux distros till you find one you like, personally I like Kubuntu, KDE and Ubuntu, but your tastes may vary.. Once you're happy with it and are somewhat familiar with it, yank that Windows bandage off.... back up your data, install that Linux distro to the machine and just blow away Windows.. I did that nearly 7 years ago and now I sit back and laugh my ass off at all of the stories I see on the internet about the latest MS abuse of those who *still* use Windows... Quite entertaining...
The Linux-powered Precisions are $100 less than the ones with Winblows... Of course, being Dell Precisions, they are pricy, but well worth the $$$$...
When I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my current Dell Latitude, I had zero problems, everything worked right "out of the box".. including the wifi AND that wifi was a Broadcom, which I recall a few years ago used to be a serious pain in the ass to get working on Linux... Not the case anymore...
I, on the other hand, do the exact opposite, run Linux just fine on a Dell Latitude, and for the extremely rare times I need Windows, I run a Windows 7 virtualbox VM, using the OEM product key from said Dell laptop..
I do the same thing, but with Dell offlease Latitudes/Precisions.. Currently using a Latitude E5410 with 8Gb of ram, an i3 processor, and Kubuntu 14.04.. Works like a champ...
Lyft works better and treats its drivers FAR better..
I've only used Lyft once, from the airport to home after a trip, and was pleasantly surprised.. Since I'm retired, I'd considered driving for Uber/Lyft, but once I found all of the endless goverment bullshit I had to go thru (3 fucking business licenses, state, county, and city, for a total of over $500/year), I decided to forget about it.. Since then I've talked to some people who drive for Uber/Lyft locally and it becomes glaringly apparent I dodged a LARGE bullet by skipping them....
If you don't like it, install Linux. Or a BSD. Or whatever you like.
Don't you worry your astroturfing AC head over that, as an ever-increasing number of us HAVE dumped anything MS and enjoy our computers FAR more than we did when still using Windows.. I used/supported MS products for 20 years as a user and a sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with all things MS, and one day deleted the Win7 partition on my systems, reinitialized grub and haven't looked back.. I'm supremely entertained by all the abuse MS heaps on those poor suckers who put up with said abuse by continuing to use MS products..
Lynch 'em and STOP buying their products!... FUCK APPLE!!!
In case you hadn't noticed, Obama is no longer in office... Just thought I'd mention it since you seem to have been under a rock for the last few months...
Oh my... Maren Jenson.. When the original BSG was on, I had a serious letch for that gorgeous lady... She still looks FANTASTIC at 61.. Might say I still have a letch for her.....
Yet another reason, if we really *need* another, to quit using MS products. I used/supported MS products for 20 years as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with Windows on my personal systems. I had been dualbooting Win7 and Linux, but once I made the decision, I simply deleted the Win7 partition, and reinstalled grub. After 6 years of zero MS, I've not missed it a bit.. In fact, I'm forced to use Windows in a part-time volunteer support position with a local charity, and I find that using Windows now, after being 100% Linux for going on 7 years, is very unnatural. After seeing all of the multiple forms of abuse MS heaps on those who still use Windows, I couldn't be happier with my decision...
All of my Linux machines have Nvidia graphics, and I use the proprietary Nvidia "blob" driver, as its FAR better than the clusterfuck that is the opensource driver, but I'll tell you one damn thing.. The day they mandate this bullshit "GeForce Experience" spyware crap on Linux installs is the day I join Linus with his middle-finger "FUCK YOU" gesture to Nvidia and dump Nvidia for good.. They may get away with forcing that shit on naive Windows users (look at those who use Windows 10 for a clue), but most Linux folks are not ANYWHERE near that naive and won't stand for spyware on their otherwise pristine systems...