01-26-2017, 03:29 PM
Welcome to the forum.
I can identify with trying to make Windows more pleasurable. My laptop is represented by the specs you see with my profile. But when I first put Linux Lite on it, it had 8GB of memory. Running Windows 7 with that 8GB of memory and an Intel i5 duo-core quad threaded 2.6 GHz processor wasn't fun. I don't miss it at all. Linux Lite ran very well on the 8GB of RAM. The reason I maxed it out to 16GB is because I knew I'd be running virtual machines, and a Win 7 VM would be one of them.
I'm glad Win 7 isn't my daily driver anymore, and I only need to turn it on (in a VM) once or twice per 6 months. I don't hate it. I've just been around the block. I know its limits. I know the maintenance involved to get it to behave, and it's too much for personal home use.
I've said the Internet wouldn't be what it is today if it had to wait for everyone to be able to afford Apple products. Likewise, I think tablets, cell phones, and desktop Linux are what they are today because desktop computing using Windows comparatively became the worst performing tech in people's personal lives. Overpriced or low performing tech elsewhere have made the people around me, who still use a PC, easy to convert over to Linux Lite.
Again, welcome to the forum. You're in the right place!
I can identify with trying to make Windows more pleasurable. My laptop is represented by the specs you see with my profile. But when I first put Linux Lite on it, it had 8GB of memory. Running Windows 7 with that 8GB of memory and an Intel i5 duo-core quad threaded 2.6 GHz processor wasn't fun. I don't miss it at all. Linux Lite ran very well on the 8GB of RAM. The reason I maxed it out to 16GB is because I knew I'd be running virtual machines, and a Win 7 VM would be one of them.
I'm glad Win 7 isn't my daily driver anymore, and I only need to turn it on (in a VM) once or twice per 6 months. I don't hate it. I've just been around the block. I know its limits. I know the maintenance involved to get it to behave, and it's too much for personal home use.
I've said the Internet wouldn't be what it is today if it had to wait for everyone to be able to afford Apple products. Likewise, I think tablets, cell phones, and desktop Linux are what they are today because desktop computing using Windows comparatively became the worst performing tech in people's personal lives. Overpriced or low performing tech elsewhere have made the people around me, who still use a PC, easy to convert over to Linux Lite.
Again, welcome to the forum. You're in the right place!
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