i use of my ipad, iphone for phone, email, msg, a few social aps, and that is it. Could probably get by with a much older ios, but keep it updated for secutity reasons.
I don't have experience with this specific O/S. However, my general policy is to keep the computer's original O/S updated, and save the change of O/S for when I change PC's, and get the next version of Windows installed on a machine where it's supposed to work with everything that's installed, and with the hardware of that PC.
And if we find out we can't use the old PC with its older Windows, that's a good time to install Ubuntu on it. We need one PC running Windows here, but the rest can manage with Linux. Most of their use would be a handful of programs, all of which Linux has a version.
So, I'd keep my Windows 10 updated as long as possible if I were you.
I've been using Linux for most of a decade as my daily driver, I keep a virtualized install of Windows 11 for when I need to print or scan from my laser printer that isn't supported.
I recommend people who don't need windows only apps switch to Linux, because Microsoft spies on everything, plus it's faster than windows for most things. I use Manjaro Linux, but Ubuntu and Mint are great for beginners. The main thing about Linux is it's free, if you want great support you'll find Google helps in most cases. Most of the major distributions offer paid support if you need it. For folks that like games, Steam on Linux has thousands of games to choose from, many AAA titles. For Office apps there is Libre Office, a very capable office suite that has all the functions of Microsoft office. For adobe like apps there are many titles which may have a learning curve, but are free.
I don't do much office work anymore but find Apache which takes the place of Microsoft Word pretty good to use for simple letters.. its free and works the same.
So you recommend moving over to Linux from either Google or Edge? Other than lack of spying, is there any other benefit?
I don't do much office work anymore but find Apache which takes the place of Microsoft Word pretty good to use for simple letters.. its free and works the same.
So you recommend moving over to Linux from either Google or Edge? Other than lack of spying, is there any other benefit?
Linux doesn't force updates you are in total control as to when if you ever update. I recommend updating as the updates come in, it's the highest protection. No need for anti virus software.
I don't do much office work anymore but find Apache which takes the place of Microsoft Word pretty good to use for simple letters.. its free and works the same.
So you recommend moving over to Linux from either Google or Edge? Other than lack of spying, is there any other benefit?
Um, I think you're using Windows and looking at browsers. Microsoft Edge is a web browser. Google has Chrome as a web browser- but there's a lot of things called "Google" just like there's lots of things called "Microsoft" so I can't tell which Google product you mean, but from the context of Edge, you might mean Chrome.
Linux is an operating system, like Windows. (Several specific parallel operating systems, all types of Linux.)
If you're looking for different web browsers, you'll need different answers than if you're looking for different operating systems.
I agree that Linux is good-especially Ubuntu- if you do basic computing, since there's Linux versions of many of the things you'd want. I tend to have very specific software needs, so I need at least one desktop with Windows.
As for web browsers, I use neither Chrome nor Edge. I have Opera (a Chrome distro) handy just in case I need a Chrome version. I don't like Chrome nor Edge because both are used for spying on their users. I like my privacy, and don't want my processor power nor time wasted with telemetry if I can avoid it. I tend to use several FireFox distros, depending on my needs at the moment. (FireFox itself for flexibility, PaleMoon for speed on sites I trust and don't require the latest bells and whistles, and LibreWolf for secure browsing much of the time. Lately, I find myself using LibreWolf more than the others.) )
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i use of my ipad, iphone for phone, email, msg, a few social aps, and that is it. Could probably get by with a much older ios, but keep it updated for secutity reasons.
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I don't have experience with this specific O/S. However, my general policy is to keep the computer's original O/S updated, and save the change of O/S for when I change PC's, and get the next version of Windows installed on a machine where it's supposed to work with everything that's installed, and with the hardware of that PC.
And if we find out we can't use the old PC with its older Windows, that's a good time to install Ubuntu on it. We need one PC running Windows here, but the rest can manage with Linux. Most of their use would be a handful of programs, all of which Linux has a version.
So, I'd keep my Windows 10 updated as long as possible if I were you.
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I've been using Linux for most of a decade as my daily driver, I keep a virtualized install of Windows 11 for when I need to print or scan from my laser printer that isn't supported.
I recommend people who don't need windows only apps switch to Linux, because Microsoft spies on everything, plus it's faster than windows for most things. I use Manjaro Linux, but Ubuntu and Mint are great for beginners. The main thing about Linux is it's free, if you want great support you'll find Google helps in most cases. Most of the major distributions offer paid support if you need it. For folks that like games, Steam on Linux has thousands of games to choose from, many AAA titles. For Office apps there is Libre Office, a very capable office suite that has all the functions of Microsoft office. For adobe like apps there are many titles which may have a learning curve, but are free.
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I don't do much office work anymore but find Apache which takes the place of Microsoft Word pretty good to use for simple letters.. its free and works the same.
So you recommend moving over to Linux from either Google or Edge? Other than lack of spying, is there any other benefit?
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Linux doesn't force updates you are in total control as to when if you ever update. I recommend updating as the updates come in, it's the highest protection. No need for anti virus software.
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Um, I think you're using Windows and looking at browsers. Microsoft Edge is a web browser. Google has Chrome as a web browser- but there's a lot of things called "Google" just like there's lots of things called "Microsoft" so I can't tell which Google product you mean, but from the context of Edge, you might mean Chrome.
Linux is an operating system, like Windows. (Several specific parallel operating systems, all types of Linux.)
If you're looking for different web browsers, you'll need different answers than if you're looking for different operating systems.
I agree that Linux is good-especially Ubuntu- if you do basic computing, since there's Linux versions of many of the things you'd want. I tend to have very specific software needs, so I need at least one desktop with Windows.
As for web browsers, I use neither Chrome nor Edge. I have Opera (a Chrome distro) handy just in case I need a Chrome version. I don't like Chrome nor Edge because both are used for spying on their users. I like my privacy, and don't want my processor power nor time wasted with telemetry if I can avoid it. I tend to use several FireFox distros, depending on my needs at the moment. (FireFox itself for flexibility, PaleMoon for speed on sites I trust and don't require the latest bells and whistles, and LibreWolf for secure browsing much of the time. Lately, I find myself using LibreWolf more than the others.) )
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