Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Well discovered the problem worked it out and had the geek guys do a design layout similar to my Windows 7.
told the geek guy that I refused the freebie on windows 10 and so stayed with windows 7. He told me that the initial Windows 10 had several problems and that they had worked them out. I have a Dell Inspiron and found it has a mind of its own as it jumps around on me spells words the way it wants and increases its size up down at will. So my new HP seems calmer and well behaved thus far I checked out the browser ratings and found that goggle listed at the top, then Opera then Microsoft Edge then Firefox. However Firefox just add new features. So I had the tech guys continue my firefox. I am now in a position to explore and to right click........ Thanks for your help guys. I still miss pen, paper, discretionary and encyclopedias |
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My grandson is a PHD computer scientist/developer/writer. Years ago he recommended (and still does) to just leave it on and let it hibernate/wake as required. I don't think I have turned my computer(s) off in 10 years except when away/traveling. It is a personal choice. |
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Actually Linux did take off - in a big way. Virtually all high performance computing (HPC) systems worldwide run Linux. There are a number of different Linux distributions that you can install on your PC, that come with a browser and an office productivity package. Many different consumer products run a Linux OS under the covers. The Mac OS is Unix-based (I won't go into the differences between Linux and Unix but for most conversations you can consider them essentially the same). While the total number of installs on desktop computers is dwarfed by various versions of Windows, Linux is alive and well. Inertia will pretty much guarantee that something called "Windows" will continue to have the most desktop installs into the foreseeable future. In my home, we only have Unix and Linux systems.
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While Linux is not pushed by the big box stores, pretty much anyone can install Ubuntu Linux on their PC and anyone can buy a Mac, which has Unix (which is essentially Linux ... ).
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This is all true but I was referring to big box walk in and buy a PC options and Linux does not enjoy the same recognition as Windows and Mac. Not a lot of non technical people know anything about it. I didn't say it wasn't available, I said it was not mainstream.
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If your assertion is that most people have never heard the words "Unix/Linux" or have heard them but don't know what they are then I would agree with you. If your assertion is that "Unix/Linux" PC systems are not mainstream then that is not true. About 11% of the PC market is "Unix/Linux" - about 9.5% is the Macintosh OS and about 1.5% is other various Linux distros. When you buy a Mac, and the vast majority of people have heard of a Mac, you are essentially buying a Linux system, whether you realize it not. Apple readily states the the Mac OS is Unix. Big box stores are only one place to buy PCs - and they do sell Macs. Go into BestBuy and say you want to buy a "Unix"-based PC - they will sell you a Mac. You can buy a Dell system with Linux installed.
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The various flavors of "Linux" are branded with various names such as Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, etc. They start with essentially the same code base and do value add. You generally won't hear the term "Linux" as a specific brand. The same thing applies/applied to Unix operating systems; you will hear/heard of various branded names such as AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, UNICOS, MacOS, etc. They are all "Unix" operating systems and they all started with a similar code base. "Linux" is not a brand name such as "Windows". A "Linux" system is widely available: buy a Mac. The brand name "MacOS" has widespread name recognition. The code basis is different than the Linux code base but the user commands (awk is still awk and grep is still grep) are the same and how processes are handled (the kernel) is essentially the same. The GUI layered on top is, of course, different.
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