Pugs1
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Well, having been an MS techie and MS fan since I first started using the WIN 95 OS in anger years ago, I must say that having now had, had enough of privacy and security I reformatted a 4 year old laptop and installed LINUX Mint and all I can say is WOW and further having now installed different Distros of the OS, I'm not going back to Windows. Linux for those whom don't know is free (generally) and comes with all the suites you could ask for..free as well and open source.
I now have WIN10 partitioned on one SSD as a back up for some tasks on OneDrive (not such a prob with Synology NAS doing the sync'ing) and for some MS Office compatibility issues but the main driver is now Linux Mint, LInux KDE Neon Plasma and Linux Zorin...all free, with Libre office, GIMP (I know!) for taking over from Photoshop and Evolution mail connected to MS Exchange. I would highly recommend Linux with extra security and privacy..no dialing home to MS\Google\Apple. A lot less viruses\malware to. Further, it is much quicker than WIN10 and you can run on old hardware quite happily.
If you have had it with the big players, give Linux ago, the OS 'flavours' have progressed a long long way. If I could find a 1TB Cloud for less than 50 quid, I'd bin MS altogether (no google accounts for me!)
Cant wait for the Linux phone to appear, good luck to them.
I now have WIN10 partitioned on one SSD as a back up for some tasks on OneDrive (not such a prob with Synology NAS doing the sync'ing) and for some MS Office compatibility issues but the main driver is now Linux Mint, LInux KDE Neon Plasma and Linux Zorin...all free, with Libre office, GIMP (I know!) for taking over from Photoshop and Evolution mail connected to MS Exchange. I would highly recommend Linux with extra security and privacy..no dialing home to MS\Google\Apple. A lot less viruses\malware to. Further, it is much quicker than WIN10 and you can run on old hardware quite happily.
If you have had it with the big players, give Linux ago, the OS 'flavours' have progressed a long long way. If I could find a 1TB Cloud for less than 50 quid, I'd bin MS altogether (no google accounts for me!)
Cant wait for the Linux phone to appear, good luck to them.