Bill Gates can suck my vagina

OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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Just scrolled quickly thru the 3 pages of this thread. Haven't laughed so hard in years! :lol:

I'm sitting here watching sat TV up in the left corner of my monitor, playing some Spider solitaire just below that and downloading porn under those while typing in here.

All using good old XP Pro. A pirate copy I got shortly after XP was released. I fix, build and repair computers for fun and profit and WinX is the most bug-ridden piece of crap Micro$oft has ever put out.

My only beef with XP is not being able to hack a way to get my Blu-Ray burner to work but it works fine for DVDs so who cares eh. Burned disks of any type are useless for data storage after 3 - 5 years so I have a 3T USB3 backup drive that I refresh ever couple of weeks in case this beast goes down. I already have a 2nd machine cloned from this one with it's own TV card so I just have to swap cables and it's up and running in a half hour or less.

Dell, HP etc are useless pieces of consumer crap and should be avoided like WalMart by any person with half a brain.

If and when I decide to upgrade my PC I'm going with some form of free Linux. Mint is a tasty flavour but I like to get into the guts of my OS so maybe something else will taste even better.

I've never taken a PC to the shop. I am the shop! Same with my vehicles. Took me almost a full day to replace the tranny in my '92 Exploder but now I have OverDrive that works. :)

Most people these days can barely replace a roll of toilet paper much less fix anything with a screwdriver. Toss it in the dump and buy a new one is how it works now and Win10 is that same POS that belongs in the dump.

:peace:
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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@OldMedUser , yeah, i have to agree, i really liked the XP pro OS. I hung on to it as long as I could and still have a laptop around with it loaded.

Been using a Win 10 OS for about a year now. I've noticed the updates can/will change some of the program associations and one update a few months back caused me to have to reload 10, a real PITA.
 
Nugachino

Nugachino

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You could also take the plunge to a free OS. Linux offers similar interfaces to windows. But, without the suck of needing to "pay" for a new OS every few years. And! You don't get fucked in the arse by every virus on the internet.
 
roseypeach

roseypeach

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BarnBuster said:
@OldMedUser , yeah, i have to agree, i really liked the XP pro OS. I hung on to it as long as I could and still have a laptop around with it loaded.

Been using a Win 10 OS for about a year now. I've noticed the updates can/will change some of the program associations and one update a few months back caused me to have to reload 10, a real PITA.
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man you ain't kidding, our new all in one that came with Win10 updates about once a month and every fuckin time we have to reset everything. I even turned off the damn updates and it turned the shit back on itself! What the hell is up with that? The last 'update' a couple weeks back caused our internet to stop working, that really pissed us off because we had to reinstall our browser and virus program because it literally uninstalled them and deleted our connection settings. o_O

Nugachino said:
You could also take the plunge to a free OS. Linux offers similar interfaces to windows. But, without the suck of needing to "pay" for a new OS every few years. And! You don't get fucked in the arse by every virus on the internet.
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We're still using the 10 as I type this, and I finally got the Windows 7 and was able to update to the 10 on my laptop but of course, even though we installed AV and adblock, both our pc's are buggy now. I did try the Linux Sephora edition but I'm a creature of habit and the GUI was so different from what I'm used to that I went back to the 10.

I'm gonna take a day before long and go back to Linux, I would feel a lot better about security with that, this windows shit is getting scary...
 
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BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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roseypeach said:
I even turned off the damn updates and it turned the shit back on itself! What the hell is up with that? The last 'update' a couple weeks back caused our internet to stop working, that really pissed us off because we had to reinstall our browser and virus program because it literally uninstalled them and deleted our connection settings. o_O
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seems like some of the AV and cleaners like CCleaner and Privizer can cause the connect loss problems in 10, but i never experienced that. i also have a problem now if i try to use IE11 after the latest update with program freezing. the other browsers work ok, just IE.

i think askwoody.com had a method to stop the auto update if i can remember. might have been a registry hack
 
Nugachino

Nugachino

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Windows is shit. I mean I liked XP and 7. But that's about it. I mainly use Linux Mint 18 these days.
Sure Linux still has its support issues for some things. But, it's free! What's not to like?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i guess i've been lucky, and am probably cursing myself by saying this, but i've never had any major issues with any version of windows i've used so far. i updated to 10 as soon as i was able and the only problem i've had so far was it didn't register itself for almost a month, everything else has been smooth sailing
 
Nugachino

Nugachino

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I won't touch Win10. Ever since my sister's laptop upgraded to it. She's had loop booting, bsods, system hangs. Driver support issues. And her laptop just randomly turning itself off without warning. It was initially a windows 8.1 machine.

After seeing all that bullshit. I decided. Free or not. There's no point putting that turd on my hardware. And so I found, then installed the latest version of Linux. I've had one error. My KB scroll lock flashes nonstop. That's it. Everything else self installed without even a hiccup.
 
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