New direction for Windows?

The wife has Win 10 on her laptop (for now.......). I have Edge, Cortana and all apps I can turned off for her however Cortana still runs in the background collecting and reporting data.

 

I liked Ubuntu when I had it but I never knew which version of add-ons and extensions and programs to install from thechoices they gave you. Are you familiar with what I’m talking about?

 

So this is kind of like having parents describing their vision of the perfect life mate to a teenager.....

Okay.....

 

It's a learning curve but that's to be expected with anything new. With Ubuntu one can do a standard install which pretty much gives you everything you may need or a minimal install which cuts much of the stuff most people don't use regularly allowing the user to configure which packages (Apps) they want. I and a couple of others here are always willing to help people with setup and configuring their Linux distributions.

 

I think you mean the GUI interface packages, there's Gnome-based..to where you have a modern feel ..and lots of apps.

then I draw a mental block on the other. KDE, maybe?

I like the minimalist approach, so I use neither.

LX-something or other. Not the one to use if you want a feature-rich experience.

 

Interesting. I have 10 on this comp. Not a single problem.

I have XT on the other and (cough) Windows 95 on the oldest. No probs there either, though 95 just plays old games. I have Flight Simulator 95 with the old Meigs Airport in Chicago, and the twin towers in NYC.

 

You can actually do quite a bit with modern hardware and emulators.

I got um..Lo Wang to work.

 

Sooo, how do you like having a dedicated Microsoft workstation as opposed to a PC............

 

Whatever works.