Doesn't bother me a bit. I'm actually thankful for all the wonderful stuff in which Linux is embedded, including my Android phone. I just don't wanna mess with *nix innards on a personal computer. I stick with Windows for my desktop machine for the greater selection of hardware, but I get the power of *nix, without the hellish learning curve, on my Macbook. In fact, Petra has now gone completely Apple, having replaced her ancient Vista laptop with a gorgeous, retina display iMac; she's loved her iPad for years and was absolutely delighted to get an iPhone after two Android phones, which were never a good fit for her.
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : With regard to question one, this is why I love Linux! I said that just to piss off Alex. But if you are getting a new laptop it's likely to have Windows 8.1 unless you have specifically ordered one with Windows 7 on it. Theoretically if you bought one with 7 then it should be a newer build and thus updated and will only need ones since the version of 7 was built. Same for Windows 8.1. And as rich as Microsoft is you'd think they'd have faster update servers. Many of the updates are less than 50 MB and many much, much smaller than that. On 04/14/2015 03:39 PM, [email protected] mailto:[email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote: With regard to the second question, you can go ahead and delete the update files in your download folder after you've run the updates. Dunno what to say about the first question, because I buy new computers seldom enough that I'm always getting a newer version of Windows when I do buy one. But, when I wipe a system and reload Windows, there's always an assload of Windows updates to run. ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <[email protected]> mailto:[email protected] wrote : I am illiterate as regards modern technology (and sneakily proud of the fact - the way your granny affected ignorance of the Beatles!). Can someone answer two simple questions I have? Periodically, I get messages which instruct me not to turn off my laptop as Windows is "installing updates". So far, so simple. My query is: given that I've now had a significant, large number of updates on my current laptop, does this mean that if I were to buy a brand-new laptop I'd have to go through the same rigmarole of installing those very same updates all over again - or does the uploader up there in Cloud cuckooland simply update one kick-arse mega-program that includes all the revisions since Windows 7 (or what-have-you) was originally installed on the computer I'm buying? The other question I have is this: when I get updates for other programs (Java say) which I download to my Download folder (duh!) and I then run the download program to get the update up and running, can I then delete the original downloaded file sitting in my Download folder as it is no longer needed - or would that have catastrophic consequences? Is that at all clear? Let me know if you need clarification! Thanks in advance.
