Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

• Writer has a much easier application of styles (F11, and if you're not using styles, you really, really should for the sake of your own sanity)
  
• Writer deals much more sensibly with things like references to chapter numbers, images, tables, etc. in the text.
  
• Writer also sports a much better navigator (F5), which is important in larger documents.
  
• Writer supports SVG.
  
• Word's track changes feature used to be significantly superior, but in LO 5 (and I think already since 4.3 or so) it's not half bad anymore in Writer.
  

Everything in computers is about controlling people. Linux less than Windows, but just that, a bit less.
The problem is philosophical, not a matter of hardware and/or open/closed electrical circuits.

While investigating how Windows managed to gobble up 80GB of space, I found a C:\$Windows.~WS directory.

It must be a Win10 thingy. Never happened to me with Win7 or earlier versions of Windoze.

BTW, in case you can't pay the penalties you'll be disconnected from the internet and you'll be sent to jail.

It's a temp leftover from the Windows 7 to 10 upgrade.

Never?

Incidentally, someone made a video (on a real system) of upgrading from Windows 1 all the way to Windows 10.

- Well, in the first place it makes little sense to install a new OS on old hardware - for me at least.

- I want to be able to format and install the OS whenever I want - even so I've done it only a few times during my life, usually after buying a new computer.

A computer with no OS preinstalled is considerable more expensive. On the other hand you can make a bargain buy with computers with Windoze preinstalled on them.

However I've read in forums many posts from people who have been tricked in by MS into upgrading to Win10 and ended up with a fu*ked up installation.
They asked for help how to revert. For others the upgrade went fine.

- Well, in the first place it makes little sense to install a new OS on old hardware - for me at least.
I usually keep the OS as long as the hardware doesn't become comfortless outdated.

A computer with no OS preinstalled is considerable more expensive. On the other hand you can make a bargain buy with computers with Windoze preinstalled on them.
However such computers have also a lot of crap preinstalled. So instead of wasting my time with cleaning up the crap I choose to do a clean install.

The best laptop in the world right now is Dell XPS 13. Any good bargains on it over there? (It comes with various specs, so those are important, too, along with the price.)

And in any case, you had to upgrade from Windows 3 to Windows 9x to keep up eventually. What surprises me is that you say you've never upgraded a version of Windows, ever.

Quote from: krake on 2016-04-03, 22:12:25

- I want to be able to format and install the OS whenever I want - even so I've done it only a few times during my life, usually after buying a new computer.

I fail to see any relationship to upgrading whatsoever.

My system upgrade (motherboard + CPU + RAM) cost me rather significantly less than the POS "bargain" systems.

During the past 17 years I bought 3 computers. The actual one might serve me well for at least the next 5 years.

The only extra spending during these years was a power supply which I bought for 15€. 

However, it is still perfectly adequate for all the purposes I originally planned for it, and this matters, I guess.

Microsoft uses Windows as a deliberate way to force consumers to buy more powerfull hardware computers in a never stopping way.

if some things are odd such as moving programs from the download folder to the applications ones in order to install them.

think that actually makes a lot of sense.

Dedoimedo says GNOME 3 might finally be approaching usability again.

Quote from: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-23.html

Fedora 23 Workstation with the Gnome desktop is a very reasonable release. I am surprised first and foremost by the advancement in the Gnome framework. It's usable, and there's no reason to hate it anymore. This shows how objective and cool I am, and that my past resistance was all legit techno babble. When credits are due, I'm a bloody bank.

Indeed, self praise aside, Gnome has reached a point where it can be used. 'Tis a paradox, because it was perfect before being ruined, and now it's approaching the same level of usability it had years ago. But if we put the background story aside, yes, it's okay, and it makes sense on top of Fedora. The distro itself also works well. It's stable, robust, the hardware support is really good, all my peripherals were properly initialized, all the network protocols ate their bits and bytes without hiccups, and with some extra pimpage, you have a pleasant, friendly system that can serve entertainment as well as state-of-the-art functionality.

I'm not sure if a PSU that cheap can be anything good.