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Old 06-07-2018, 01:01 PM   #21
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Moved from XP to 7 to 10 pretty seamlessly. The way I use windows, I really haven't noticed a huge difference in anything I do (including look and feel), with the exception of Edge. Works fine normally, but there are some web pages that are awfully darned slow to load (like Morningstar)...
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Old 06-07-2018, 02:33 PM   #22
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Moved from XP to 7 to 10 pretty seamlessly. The way I use windows, I really haven't noticed a huge difference in anything I do (including look and feel), with the exception of Edge. Works fine normally, but there are some web pages that are awfully darned slow to load (like Morningstar)...

I recently saw this with Morningstar on my iPad running Safari. The fix was to clear the cache. Unfortunately I don't recall the exact clicks to do this. But maybe there is a similar way to do this on the Edge browser.
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Old 06-07-2018, 03:01 PM   #23
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I recently saw this with Morningstar on my iPad running Safari. The fix was to clear the cache. Unfortunately I don't recall the exact clicks to do this. But maybe there is a similar way to do this on the Edge browser.
yeah, I used to do that all the time with Explorer - not sure I ever did it on Edge or if it's even possible. But will take a look - thanks for the reminder!
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Old 06-07-2018, 03:26 PM   #24
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As far as I know my system is up to date as of today. Here are the numbers for Windows 10 Pro. If you don't see this as your current version, you should know that more will be coming.
I think that #1806 was uploaded to 50% of the users about 2 weeks ago.

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Latest update version 1806

Best of luck if you haven't received it yet, and congratulations if you've already uploaded and it's working well.
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Old 06-07-2018, 03:30 PM   #25
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Win XP is no longer supported/updated/secure, so if you're using it, you should stay off the web on that PC. Windows 10 is faster than Windows 8 and WAY faster than Win 7 on the same PC. Win 10 is very close to problem-free and is much more user-friendly than Windows 8 (they brought back what is essentially the start button). I work with computers all day. I don't understand you hangers-on....Also, if you didn't update for free before, you have now missed the boat and have to pay.
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Old 06-07-2018, 04:23 PM   #26
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I gave up on Microsoft 2 years and bought a MacBook Pro. After having iPhones for years the transition wasn't too bad. I'll stick with Apple.
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Old 06-07-2018, 08:06 PM   #27
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I still have Mac os 9. It was definitely one of my favorites. Haven't driven it for awhile.
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Old 06-11-2018, 01:05 PM   #28
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I've been meaning to do the same thing for a while now. Which distro are you thinking about? I had been leaning towards Ubuntu...

Re Win 10. Guess I'm in the minority, but it seems to be working better than the Win 8 that came with my laptop (which I bought 5 years ago when I was FIRE'd). I don't use Edge, just Chrome and have been moving more and more to the Google world with less and less Windows traditional applications in my life. The Google system was the best compromise with my mobile transition (Android phone and tablet).
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The distro I'm thinking about is Linux Lite. It's a distro that are geared towards those switching over from the Win world. A new release just came out. I have the previous version (3.8) on a laptop and that reminds me of Win 7.

Another distro I looked at briefly is Peppermint which I like too (the software manager uses the same one as Linux Mint), but found lite more intuitive.

It's fun to go to distro watch and see what flavors are out there as seems like a new one pops up each day.

https://distrowatch.com/
An update, I'm kinda torn between two distros. Had some time to tinker a bit with the Peppermint OS 8 distro with some of the settings. Now, I'm torn between two distros. Linux Lite vs Peppermint. Jury is still out as to which I'll move to in the future.
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I have been trying out Arch Linux on the side for the last year and have decided it is just too unstable as a main OS. So I am staying with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (long term support) for now. Will probably move to Ubuntu Mate LTS in the future.
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Old 06-13-2018, 12:39 PM   #30
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I went over to the dark side (Apple/Mac) about five years ago and never looked back and have no regrets whatsoever.
Me too, but only a couple years ago. I was fed up with all the Windows updates and the crashes.

I'm sticking with my MacBook pro, iPad mini (mostly for reading) and my iPhone.
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Was helping a friend look troubleshoot something a couple days ago. Had to install Win 10 on my laptop to troubleshoot.

Those darn tiles on from the start menu didn't take long to give me fits.

So, I went ahead and spent the best $3.94 in my life and got a piece of software called Start10 that blocks out all that tile nonsense and allows me to choose a start menu look similar to Win 7 .
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