Post by mikkh on Mar 26, 2021 21:32:36 GMT
Now obviously I'm slightly biased being a Linux user, but as an IT tech I have to deal with Windows 10 on a regular basis, so it's the devil you know sort of scenario and keeps me supplied in chocolate biscuits!
I came from a Windows background, well actually DOS because Windows wasn't around when I did my first college course and a home computer was usually an Atari ST or an Amiga, not a PC which were basically business machines back then. Windows 95 was actually a breath of fresh air and it got even better with Windows XP, but enough of the nostalgia trip, lets fast forward to today's version of Windows and why it sucks.
Having just built my new computer, I decided for some strange reason to inflict Windows 10 on it. I've been running Linux only on my main machine for many years and knew I didn't 'need' Windows, but I was curious to see how my new PC coped with a Windows 10 install and I was always going to put Linux on afterwards anyway - either as a dual boot, or just as a replacement.
I've installed Windows 10 many times for other people, mostly on machines barely able to run it, so I already knew the horrors of a slow install but figured on my new PC it would be a quicker more pleasant experience.
Definitely quicker (for Windows) but 15 minutes is still far too long to get to the first lot of configuration options, because there's a good five minutes after that before you can actually start using it, well a lot longer because the graphics card drivers are invariably missing too - and they were. It did find the drivers automatically, but that's the wrong way of doing things, surely they should be detected at the start of the install, not the end. I've watched many a Linux install and know from the resolution and font changes that the graphics card has been sensed very early into the install and utilised.
Then of course we have the infamous updates, which can take longer than the full install - what a joke. Fast forward an hour or so and it's finally ready to use properley. For anyone who uses Windows as their sole OS, it's only just started for them though because they then have virus checkers and security software to install, plus their favourite programs that Windows doesn't supply. Put the kettle on - again!
Lets compare that to a Linux install:
Pop a USB stick in (with linux on it) press the boot menu key to tell the computer to boot from that, answer a few simple questions and away you go. Even on a slow machine, it rarely goes above 10 minutes and 3 minutes is the fastest I've seen. Not only is it much quicker, but there's no hunting for drivers and it comes with a mass of software pre-installed. Linux software is updated frequently, so it's no surprise to see 50-200+ updates which would scare you to death on Windows, but it's just a couple minutes on Linux because they're mostly very small files and you don't have to reboot constantly like Windows when it's updating.
I don't understand why takes Windows so long to install and is still a very bare system when it does finally complete.
And yes I told Linux to wipe the drive when I finally got round to installing it
I came from a Windows background, well actually DOS because Windows wasn't around when I did my first college course and a home computer was usually an Atari ST or an Amiga, not a PC which were basically business machines back then. Windows 95 was actually a breath of fresh air and it got even better with Windows XP, but enough of the nostalgia trip, lets fast forward to today's version of Windows and why it sucks.
Having just built my new computer, I decided for some strange reason to inflict Windows 10 on it. I've been running Linux only on my main machine for many years and knew I didn't 'need' Windows, but I was curious to see how my new PC coped with a Windows 10 install and I was always going to put Linux on afterwards anyway - either as a dual boot, or just as a replacement.
I've installed Windows 10 many times for other people, mostly on machines barely able to run it, so I already knew the horrors of a slow install but figured on my new PC it would be a quicker more pleasant experience.
Definitely quicker (for Windows) but 15 minutes is still far too long to get to the first lot of configuration options, because there's a good five minutes after that before you can actually start using it, well a lot longer because the graphics card drivers are invariably missing too - and they were. It did find the drivers automatically, but that's the wrong way of doing things, surely they should be detected at the start of the install, not the end. I've watched many a Linux install and know from the resolution and font changes that the graphics card has been sensed very early into the install and utilised.
Then of course we have the infamous updates, which can take longer than the full install - what a joke. Fast forward an hour or so and it's finally ready to use properley. For anyone who uses Windows as their sole OS, it's only just started for them though because they then have virus checkers and security software to install, plus their favourite programs that Windows doesn't supply. Put the kettle on - again!
Lets compare that to a Linux install:
Pop a USB stick in (with linux on it) press the boot menu key to tell the computer to boot from that, answer a few simple questions and away you go. Even on a slow machine, it rarely goes above 10 minutes and 3 minutes is the fastest I've seen. Not only is it much quicker, but there's no hunting for drivers and it comes with a mass of software pre-installed. Linux software is updated frequently, so it's no surprise to see 50-200+ updates which would scare you to death on Windows, but it's just a couple minutes on Linux because they're mostly very small files and you don't have to reboot constantly like Windows when it's updating.
I don't understand why takes Windows so long to install and is still a very bare system when it does finally complete.
And yes I told Linux to wipe the drive when I finally got round to installing it
