I don't understand how people deal with Windows any more. Honestly. I'm saying this because I had to get a new laptop (my old one isn't dying, but it freezes every five minutes when I'm using Firefox, and the fan is on pretty much all the time; I can't use GIMP without wanting to smash it. Also I broke the enter key about a year ago. So I thinks to myself, "I'll get a new one!"
I have dithered about this for months, trying to figure out if I really needed it. Well, I do. For reference, I bought my last laptop seven years ago. Which is prehistoric in computer terms, isn't it? ;) (mind you, I still have my first ever laptop which, as far as I'm aware, still works, and that one's thirteen years old and cost three times as much as this one) ).
This one has a 1Tb hard drive, so I was going to have it as dual-booting machine running Windows and Linux. But after just noodling with Windows 8 to see what it does, I don't want to use it. It's like an operating system for idiots! I don't want my computer to look/act like my phone, thanks. And I don't want to be told, on installing Firefox, that I just installed an "app that opens webpages" in a little pop-up box when it's done. NO SHIT SHERLOCK. And I don't want my programs referred to as apps!
So anyway, now I'm waiting on a Linux iso download, as I have a 64-bit machine now, whereas I was running 32-bit before. When I initially started it, at around 2pm, it reckoned it had four hours to download. Which. When I downloaded the 32-bit version of 14.04 for the old computer, it took an hour (same file size), and I thought that was a long time. Although it has just occurred to me that maybe more people are downloading the 64-bit version because more people have 64-bit machines these days??? *shrugs*
(I also thought it might be down to shitty internet, though at least this computer says I have a better signal (I'm almost sitting on top of the router), and it hasn't disconnected, to my knowledge as yet).
(Maybe it is shitty internet, as it just failed for some reason. Going to try on the old laptop in a mo, I think).
Sadly I'll still have to get a new scanner, but that's been on the cards for over a year now. OH WELL.
I have dithered about this for months, trying to figure out if I really needed it. Well, I do. For reference, I bought my last laptop seven years ago. Which is prehistoric in computer terms, isn't it? ;) (mind you, I still have my first ever laptop which, as far as I'm aware, still works, and that one's thirteen years old and cost three times as much as this one) ).
This one has a 1Tb hard drive, so I was going to have it as dual-booting machine running Windows and Linux. But after just noodling with Windows 8 to see what it does, I don't want to use it. It's like an operating system for idiots! I don't want my computer to look/act like my phone, thanks. And I don't want to be told, on installing Firefox, that I just installed an "app that opens webpages" in a little pop-up box when it's done. NO SHIT SHERLOCK. And I don't want my programs referred to as apps!
So anyway, now I'm waiting on a Linux iso download, as I have a 64-bit machine now, whereas I was running 32-bit before. When I initially started it, at around 2pm, it reckoned it had four hours to download. Which. When I downloaded the 32-bit version of 14.04 for the old computer, it took an hour (same file size), and I thought that was a long time. Although it has just occurred to me that maybe more people are downloading the 64-bit version because more people have 64-bit machines these days??? *shrugs*
(I also thought it might be down to shitty internet, though at least this computer says I have a better signal (I'm almost sitting on top of the router), and it hasn't disconnected, to my knowledge as yet).
(Maybe it is shitty internet, as it just failed for some reason. Going to try on the old laptop in a mo, I think).
Sadly I'll still have to get a new scanner, but that's been on the cards for over a year now. OH WELL.
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