XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 10/30/2025 8:28 PM, Felix wrote:   
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   > LM (Linux Mint) is easier and simpler to use than Windows will ever be.   
   Software manager installs programs with just one click, and does updates for   
   them, installs all needed drivers and keeps them updated. Timeshift backs up   
   your system and files    
   daily. It's a complete 'in house' system, everything is done for you. and the   
   OS and software is all free, no accounts necessary, and no M$ controlling and   
   monitoring everything you do. I'm so glad I switched.   
   We don't do advocacy in the Windows group as a rule, but for the comedic value   
   only, here is a table.   
      
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   LM (Linux Mint) is easier and simpler to use than Windows will ever be.  +   I   
   have icons on my desktop :-)  [a reference to Gnome]   
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   Software manager installs programs with just one click,                  +     
   Run a program installer, it installs.   
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   and does updates for them,                                               +     
   Implemented on Metro.Apps, both inbox and third party   
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   few win32 progs install "updater service" for their updates (FFX,TB,Goog)   
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   installs all needed drivers and keeps them updated.                      +     
   The OS downloaded and installed the drivers (W10/W11) at install time   
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   Timeshift backs up your system and files daily.                          +     
   W7backup, File History (large number of third party products, 30+)   
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   MS Utilities are "rough, unfinished", so as to not eliminate partner products.   
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   It's a complete 'in house' system, everything is done for you.           +     
   You can do things for yourself, follow a whim if you like (Marion)   
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   and the OS and software is all free, no accounts necessary,              +     
   The grace period on the OS is now "infinity", not "30 days" (can run   
   unlicensed)   
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   and no M$ controlling and monitoring everything you do.                  +     
   Diagnostic Data Viewer (gives breakdown of telemetry, but still cryptic)   
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   I'm so glad I switched.                                                  +     
   The grass is always greener, somewhere, just not where you're standing   
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   The OSes don't really "invent" a lot of stuff.   
   But they copy from one another, incessantly and at high speed.   
   This is why I don't bother with advocacy. We'd be arguing about   
   how one OS uses TimesRoman and the other uses ComicSans, we   
   would be arguing about our tastes in pastel colors and whether   
   our corners were rounded.   
      
   Did you know I had rounded corners and drop shadows on my desktop ?   
   Big deal. Those rounded corners were copied from somewhere.   
      
   If, on the other hand, we were discussing performance,   
   then there are significant differences between platforms.   
   But you can't do that, without using the items, can't   
   detect the differences. Firefox runs smoother on Linux,   
   and I can't tell whether it is a "threads" design issue   
   or something at the process level. Firefox rails on Javascript   
   easier on Windows, than on Linux. A "failure to respond"   
   report on Windows, for the same set of conditions the   
   browser remains responsive on Linux, implying that perhaps   
   threads have execution limiters. Or the thread scheduling   
   uses a different method (round robin, strict priority, and   
   so on). Threads are supposed to be lightweight, which means   
   the theoreticians can't go crazy with heavyweight solutions.   
      
   On the issue of accounts, the Daily Driver I'm using to make this   
   post, has an MSA account on it. *None* of the other vast array   
   of "regular" installs here, has an MSA. How is that possible ?   
   It's easy when you know how. I need at least one MSA, so I can   
   see how it behaves. There is an MSA on the Insider Edition of   
   Windows, which I run on this same machine occasionally.   
      
      Paul   
      
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