> On May 28, 2020 7:03 PM Dave Widgery <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for all the replies you have given me something to think about, > sorry if I didn't explain properly why the change, our notebooks are a > few years old and starting to struggle with all the bloatware that > comes with windows, I have looked at replacing them and all the cheap > notebooks now only appear to come with tiny SSD disk drives, I want to > have a reasonable amount of local disk space but cannot justify > spending a lot of money on two higher spec PC's, so the next option is > to use linux, but my wife needs something that looks fairly familiar > to her hence the look and feel of the windows interface, also most > programs that we use like LibreOffice are available in native forms > but we do have a few odd windows programs that aren't available and I > would rather not duel boot the pc hence the requirement for windows > emulation. > > Thanks again > Dave
I've not done this for maybe a decade, but re-installing Windows was something we used to do to ageing machines. There is an option buried somewhere on the Start Menu to generate you a "Recovery USB stick". (I am amused that Microsoft are aware that the software often bundled with new computers has a negative value, and can thus charge a premium for "Windows Signature Edition" https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/b/laptops ) I suspect you'll find a Linux machine with Windows emulation harder to use than one or the other. If you stick to something common like plain Ubuntu or Mint (or Windows!) solutions to problems will be easier to find. Many routers let you connect a USB hard disc and share the contents over your network. That may make a cheap SSD laptop more palatable. All the best, Dave _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
