I agree with the previous post. As a computer tech person, I have NOT been impressed with Win10. In my computer shop I have several requests to reload win7 and remove 10. Infact, by default there are settings within 10 that "seed" itself out to download much like viruses do. It may be better than 8, but I would never trade it for Win7. Internet performance has also been an issue where the internet providers are being blamed for internet issues when infact it is Win10. Microsoft seems desperate to give it away in order to get people away from 7 for some odd reason.
I agree looking ahead that Linux may be the answer, especially as Linux improves its ability to install software and its dependancies without a huge amount of work. PC Linux seems to be one of the platforms that makes this much easier. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Byerley To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 1:06 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Linux & R:Base I don’t find any of the negatives you mention with Win 10, but I did a virgin install on the existing hardware I had instead of an upgrade. Most applications start noticeably quicker over my Win 7 previous. I even managed to get my old Autocad 2000 (16 year old software) to work on Win 10 without running it in XP virtual machine. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alastair Burr Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 7:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [RBASE-L] - Linux & R:Base The time to move away from Microsoft Windows and change to Linux is beckoning – I find Windows 10 almost unusable in that it is desperately slow and often unreliable with automatic updates changing my settings at will. I have a Linux system running from a flash drive and there seems to be very little that I do in Windows that I can’t do on this simple installation. A major consideration however, is running R:Base: Will it run directly under Linux? There seems to be ways of running some Windows programs but not all – will R:Base run in one of these systems? Presumably there is no problem with a dual boot set up? Any advice and comments would be welcome, Regards, Alastair.
