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A quick fix for sluggish Windows machines
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Today I found a simple, free solution. I downloaded Ubuntu, put it on a flash drive, and installed the latest version, which took about 20 minutes. Now the machine is quite snappy. Yes, I got permission from our technician to do this. Ubuntu also quickly found both of our department printers and connected to both quite easily.
I know from experience that if I try to do anything other than use the word processing and Firefox, and listen to music, that I'll start getting irritated with Ubuntu, but that's all I ever use on this machine. It currently sits on an improvised standing desk (thanks Ikea) and I've attached a mechanical keyboard, so I'm liking it so far. I kind of don't care a lot about which operating system I use at this point, although the Linux command line is useful.
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This is why people hate Linux evangelists.
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My painfully sluggish windows machine became not-quite-blazing-fast after hours of hassling didn't work, with a fifteen minute install
I could have installed Amiga OS with those results and I would have been excited about it.
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cranberries wrote: ...... The real fix is to peel off all of the mandatory security software that IT requires, but that presents other problems. But if you have a crappy old machine and primarily are using the web and word processing, it works really well. ... .
Can someone please call Cranberries and tell him his account has been hijacked by Chinese or eastern European hackers/criminals [ insert shocked face emoji here ]
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I could have installed Amiga OS with those results and I would have been excited about it.
Amiga was the real deal, back when sock ties were a thing. In the Uphill Both Ways department, I spent $400 way back when for a 20 MB hard drive that plugged into the side of an Amiga 500. That machine was awesome, but the lack of memory protection made software a little twitchy. Not that I couldn't blow up x86 boxes back then too, but I had to work harder.
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Black Barney wrote: maybe Cranberries is secretly Tommy Wiseau??
After googling who he is I still don't understand Barney's post ... that is sad,
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Southernman wrote:
cranberries wrote: ...... The real fix is to peel off all of the mandatory security software that IT requires, but that presents other problems. But if you have a crappy old machine and primarily are using the web and word processing, it works really well. ... .
Can someone please call Cranberries and tell him his account has been hijacked by Chinese or eastern European hackers/criminals [ insert shocked face emoji here ]
OK, cranberries may have been referring to using Ubuntu rather than turning off AV protection - I retract my allegation if that was the case (my IT 'perimeter security' mode flicked on)
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You just have to hear him talk to get it
Or, alternatively, go see The Disaster Artist
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Southernman wrote:
cranberries wrote: ...... The real fix is to peel off all of the mandatory security software that IT requires, but that presents other problems. But if you have a crappy old machine and primarily are using the web and word processing, it works really well. ... .
Can someone please call Cranberries and tell him his account has been hijacked by Chinese or eastern European hackers/criminals [ insert shocked face emoji here ]
Ok, they don't just install a virus checker and a firewall--there is some other thing that constantly scours your hard drive for any signs of unprotected identification or anything that could be scraped to forge your identity and gain access. I also carry around a key fob (because I'm so cool that I don't have a smart phone) because I have to use two-factor authentication to access the mandatory course management software. It is death by a thousand paranoid IT paper cuts, backed up by Legal, who are the only real authority at our corporatized state college.
Still, it's better than most other jobs I can imagine that pay anything.
A solid state drive is usually the biggest pick-me-up for low-medium spec laptops if someone wanted to keep running Windows.
Windows TEN is pretty snappy and I like it, and I installed it originally so I could use Lightroom at work. I used to be a self-righteous Apple/Linux dick, but now I don't care, as long as it has an aluminum body, good keyboard, a crisp screen and good battery life.
(although I want an iPad for Garageband)
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Wiping the OS and installing Ubuntu sounds drastic, but I understand where you're coming from.
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