Best overall Win10/11 alternatives?? List your thoughts

[Sandman[SA]]

Makes me wish these boards had a sarcasm BBC feature.   

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

Makes me wish these boards had a sarcasm BBC feature.   

Heck I wish my brain 🧠 let me know all the times people are sarcastic as I usually miss it.

[Sandman[SA]]

Every now and then when I say something that is meant to be sarcastic, I will sometimes add [Sarcasm] [/Sarcasm] tags.

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

Every now and then when I say something that is meant to be sarcastic, I will sometimes add [Sarcasm] [/Sarcasm] tags.

I must say I have never seen you do that once.

[Sandman[SA]]

Cause I don't do it very often.  Besides, the times I did it here got lost in the database corruption when we lost more than half of the forums posts.

[Sandman[SA]]

If anyone is still looking for alternatives to windows, here is an option.

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

I was but not at this time. It was more that I didn't have a good laptop (netbook from 2010 would only handle up to Win 7 Basic). I got better from my dad now (really crap but good enough to take with me just to look things up when going to my mom's to work on her computer). It can't handle Win 11 though (only my main PC can and my mom's PC) but for the time being it was useful.

[Sandman[SA]]

If you have a spare drive around, you could try installing Linux on that.  OR, you could create a virtual machine inside Windows 10 and install it there.  That's giving that your main drive has enough free space for it.  Or just stay on Windows 10 and take stronger security measures.  You have some option here. But honestly.  Just because Windows 10 will be going EOL in a couple of months isn't the end of the road.  The OS will still run just fine.  Most games and software will still be supported for a few more years at least.  Hardware drivers on the other hand, well that's another story.

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

If you have a spare drive around, you could try installing Linux on that.  OR, you could create a virtual machine inside Windows 10 and install it there.  That's giving that your main drive has enough free space for it.  Or just stay on Windows 10 and take stronger security measures.  You have some option here. But honestly.  Just because Windows 10 will be going EOL in a couple of months isn't the end of the road.  The OS will still run just fine.  Most games and software will still be supported for a few more years at least.  Hardware drivers on the other hand, well that's another story.

Windows 11 I can adjust to. I am more worried about my mom as she is relearning Windows 10 and keeps forgetting the basics at her age (turns out she kept hitting the button to shut down Windows 10, forgetting about the Start button, which I had taught her to use, and she once did know).  With Microsoft changing Windows more and more to look like a touch screen OS, it just means me having to be at my mom's, more and more to teach her the basics repeatedly. I remember those "Windows for Dummies" books. DO they still make them? My mom needs an updated one lol. We live in a world that is "look online for this and that," but that isn't cutting elderly people like my mom and just making more work for me. It is annoying. But getting her a different OS is not the way to go with my mom. I realize that now.

What I need is a way to make it easier for her and I can't figure out any. Windows, the more it includes, the more confusing it will be for her. She does not use a cell phone and even though she is finally using the Tablet her brother gave her for her birthday 5+ years ago before he died, the battery may be going on that. I was wondering if a new tablet or a laptop with Android on it may be the way to go but I realize it won't be as she always has to ask me how to do this and that on there as well.

As for me, I will adjust. My computer can do Windows 11. But I will wait as long as possible to switch to it. I do feel lied to by MS when they said Win10 would be the last one. No point in fighting it. But in my mom's case, it is still a problem needing a solution.

Any ideas for her? By the way, her computer CAN handle Win 11 (that small slow one) but she is already complaining how slow it is...

[Sandman[SA]]

I remember those "Windows for Dummies" books. DO they still make them? My mom needs an updated one lol.

I have seen them around still.  Only I don't know how "current" they are.  But at least a lot of it would still be relevant.

As for me, I will adjust. My computer can do Windows 11. But I will wait as long as possible to switch to it. I do feel lied to by MS when they said Win10 would be the last one. No point in fighting it. But in my mom's case, it is still a problem needing a solution.

Same.  I will most likely stick with Windows 10 to the bitter end.  I have found some tricks to older Windows 11 builds that can enable a local user account.  I would be putting them to the test.

Any ideas for her? By the way, her computer CAN handle Win 11 (that small slow one) but she is already complaining how slow it is...

You could try trimming Windows 11 bloat down with an app called Rufus.  Worth a shot.

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

Many vids now about NOT going to WIN 11 but to Linux instead:

[Sandman[SA]]

I don't know if you are aware of this.  But if you have a Microsoft account setup for Windows 10, you can get another year of free security updates.  So, you don't have to leave Windows 10 just yet.  As for Windows 11?  It will be a very cold day in hell before I will install that junk on any of my computers.

If anything, you can keep Windows 10 and just setup a Virtual machine partition and install Linux on that.

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

If anything, you can keep Windows 10 and just setup a Virtual machine partition and install Linux on that.

Would there be any security risk to doing that (keeping Windows 10 installed at all)?

[Sandman[SA]]

Would there be any security risk to doing that (keeping Windows 10 installed at all)?

There are always risks to everything.  But listen.  You could still be running Win 7 if you really wanted too.  Setup a VM partition inside of that and run another OS from there.  Anything you like.  Because the VM partition is self-contained, it won't have access to the rest of the system unless you allow it.

You know my web server and NS servers are run from a win 7 machine, right?  Those services have no access to the rest of the system.  Just their corresponding directories.  And I don't use that computer for anything else.  But is it still a "security risk"?  Well, yeah.  Of course it is.  I'm just not that worried about it.

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

Would there be any security risk to doing that (keeping Windows 10 installed at all)?

There are always risks to everything.  But listen.  You could still be running Win 7 if you really wanted too.  Setup a VM partition inside of that and run another OS from there.  Anything you like.  Because the VM partition is self-contained, it won't have access to the rest of the system unless you allow it.

You know my web server and NS servers are run from a win 7 machine, right?  Those services have no access to the rest of the system.  Just their corresponding directories.  And I don't use that computer for anything else.  But is it still a "security risk"?  Well, yeah.  Of course it is.  I'm just not that worried about it.

That is good to know. I still feel Windows 7 was one of the best OS versions of Windows. Which do you think was the best?