OT ish Slow Windows

[nemo]

Huh, wouldn't have been a problem on a Linux or Mac box. :-)

[David Lang]

I've just done that. It's better.

[J.B.Treadstone]

I would also suggest openSUSE.

Anyway it seems immaterial whatever Linux distro is offered, the windows crowd seem quite happy to have to put up with AV & malware apps etc. to run their computers. Something we don't have to worry about, unless you have windows computers on your network.

[dennis]

Rubbish, there are lots more places you can get help with windows. there aren't very many linux people that can help anyone.

The hell it does.

Most people can't use linux mint, they need help but there isn't any.

[dennis]

Its dead simple, download the image, boot from it, install. Just how is that difficult?

[The Natural Philosopher]

what a stupendously ridiculous thing to say.

If there were decent help for windows, the OP wouldn't have posted here.

Hpw many people here asking how to fix linux then?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well that's linux mint for you!

takes half an hour on a reasonable computer..

[JHY]

That's not correct, the obvious support is from those you know.

Nope, even with the distros that try to look like Win.

Not for naïve users who have only ever used Win.

[Bod]

[stuart noble]

Well, I've no idea what you're talking about and I doubt if the OP has either.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Actually the naive user who has only ever used - or been abused by - win, finds it no less difficult to use than windows. He appreciates it runs faster and better than windows however.

Which reminds me, I must pop round and see how he is getting on.

[fred]

Sweet J****s. Microsoft bashing. So predictable, so boring. This all remind s me about the time Michael Dell was asked by an Apple fanboy if the percei ved problems with Vista had made Apple more of a threat. His reply was alon g the lines of 'Apple have less than 2% of the PC market so aren't even on the horizon'

Collapse of smug Apple fanboy.

I feel the same way about Linux. In global terms its such a minority intere st. If it was so wonderful it would be c*ck of the walk by this time so why would a neophyte wish to get involved with an operating system with such a small user base.

[John Rumm]

Unlikely to be a windows 8 specific thing...

Chances are you have acquired some unwanted browser "add ons"...

malwarebytes.org/mwb-download

Install, say no to the question about a 30 day trial of the pro version, run it, do an update, and then scan. Let it have away anything it finds.

[John Rumm]

Hereby demonstrating one of the big difficulties with linux - the users... while there are plenty of very helpful ones out there, there are some that have difficulty relating to folks that don't dig technology in the way they do.

[John Rumm]

Sounds like a simply way to lose all your documents, photos, and other information. Then find you are no longer connected to your email, newsgroups and don't recognise half your software.

[John Rumm]

The desktop market will shrink as the people who find they can do what they want as easily on a mobile device fall away. There will remain a core of users however on the desktop.

There are plenty of usable consumer platforms out there including android that include a subset of linux technology. However to extrapolate that into a general argument in favour of one of the desktop distributions seems like a bit of a stretch.

True, but not really relevant to the consumer.

[Davey]

Here, the OP implies that he has no idea what is meant by "Insert DVD, follow instructions". This makes me wonder how he would Backup his Windows, or even worse, how he would Restore it from a total HDD failure. That is difficult enough as it is, even for a computer-savvy operator (the last time I tried, I was told that the Backup, although made by the Update process itself, had an error, which was unspecified).

I mentioned earlier about the Linux fanatics, and yes they are out there, and I'm not one of them. I have said that I keep Windows as there is one programme that I need it for. But I also love the ease and simplicity of updates with Linux, none of the huge time-consuming sessions while Redmond downloads another load of Patches and fixes. Linux updates take a few minutes, and installing from scratchmaybe half an hour. The last time I installed Windows anywhere, it took about e hours, after several update/reboot/update/reboot etc sessions.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Dunno. Not much of a user base for a Lamborghini either, but I'd take one for free...

Wasn't much of a user base for DOS either till IBM built their PC.

Incidentally the whole desktop PC thing is in a state of collapse.

Of course since most mobiles, routers and servers are based on Linux, you could argue that its got a higher user base than windows.

[The Natural Philosopher]

As I said, download and burn the DVD, stick it in the drive and boot.

The *only* reason most naive users run windows is that it comes pre-installed.

[The Natural Philosopher]

same for a reinstall of windows.