Upgrade from Win 7 home premium to pro?

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Simon Garrett Veteran Member • Posts: 7,458
Re: J'ai mangé quoi hier soir?
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David Lal wrote:

Eric Carlson wrote:

My 85 year old father got used to Windows 10 in a matter of minutes, and that's saying a lot (He forgets how to reboot his router, or even what a router is, and has to call me to explain it all over again).

[What did I eat last night?]

Hats off to you and your Dad. I remember with great clarity my first paid job in Paris several decades ago but what I ate for dinner last night is more of a challenge!

Windows 10 is OK if the unnecessary 'features' are stripped out. I may go to Linux rather than Win 11 though.

Wow! W10 to linux is out of the frying pan, into the fire.

I use linux mainly for web hosting. Once or twice a year I have to rebuild linux on a server. Just building linux and loading the conventional web hosting LAMP stack involves a whole series of patches to files (mostly editing .ini files), changing ownership of files... most of it at the command prompt sudo (admin) level. Yesterday I forgot one patch and spent an hour wondering why Wordpress web sites weren't working, as the normal cause of that particular problem was a different patch missing. Eventually, after comparing a load of .ini files with those on a working server, I found the missing patch. I still haven't discovered why the new server can't access Windows shares.

Last year I switched from Ubuntu to Kubuntu - a very similar distro but with sufficient differences to cause another day or two of head-scratching as most of the system utilities are different.

When developers grumble about Windows, they just have to cope. When developers grumble about linux, they fork the code and create a new distro. There are over 100 linux families, and well over 500 individual distros.

I use linux because it's best for web hosting, it's fun, and I like the challenge, but easier than Windows it isn't.

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