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Probably useless anecdata, but I have (edit: Windows 11 in) a 10th gen i5-10400F in a desktop and a 11th gen i7 in a Lenovo laptop. i5 has 16G RAM and all (except one NVME stick used mainly for Linux dual-boot) standard SATA-3 6GB/s SSD boot and spinning rust data disks. The i7 has 8G RAM and a...

Intel sort of got used to being the go-to for everything, but that model died a long time ago. What we see now is the long tail of that, though with a money guy leading the cleanup it's like to be poorly focused and cause further fundamental damage. The main issue, as I see it (horrible pun...

To be pedantic, even LO has a support policy. In general, only the last few major releases (usually once or twice a year) are officially supported and patched. However, being open source, others can help, and often do via various forums, wikis, github, etc.

Yeah, I have one of those laptops. Lenovo, i7 11th gen, 8GB soldered-in, nonupgradeable RAM, nice NVME 512GB SSD. There was conflicting advice at the time about RAM upgradeability (it's not), but I got a very nice price on the system and it meets the need I got it for (the flippy screen makes it...

Many years ago, my first PCompatible (after 10+ years with a TRS80 Model 1) was a 386SX (Dak if it matters). Several years later, I wanted an upgrade but couldn't afford a whole new computer. So I got a Cyrix "486" kit (Intel had real 486s, but nothing that worked on a 16-bit bus like the 386SX...

Um, yeah, so did Win10, and probably 8.1. When you shut down it closes your files and logs off, then hibernates the OS. It doesn't hibernate the whole system. You need to use the separate Hibernate command to do that. Then, of course, you need the spare drive space for the hibernation file...

So it's ho-hum, essentially. As with Win10 (at least Mobile), it'll be mainly a release that's numbered to reset the updates clock. With Mobile (yes, I had a WinPhone that went from 8 to 10 then updates until the end) , the first 2 "annuals" were the original and the patches needed to make it...

Forgot to complete this thought. I basically agree with the author that nearly everything in Windows has an equivalent (if not a cross-platform option that is even better than equivalent). But ... If you're wedded to something in Windows, the equivalent will not be what you're wedded to. If (as...

There is in fact a decently functional though unofficial Onedrive client for Linux. It's command-line, but a GUI shell has also been made for it. Very clear instructions, even if (as in one case I had early on) you have to compile from source. Works great for me in Mint, though there are...

I have both regular-use computers running Win11, and both meet MS' minimum requirements (10-11 gen i5-i7, 8-16GB RAM, secure boot, TPM2 in UEFI, etc.). The Big One (g10 i5, 16GB, ATX tower with a bunch of disks) dual-boots Linux Mint, and I'm happy with Mint with an asterisk. The Olde ASUS...

Depends on what you do for work. I have LibreOffice (originally StarOffice, and for a while OpenOffice) at home, and never ran across a work document that couldn't be opened and edited (or at least read; LO will do font substitutions if needed) in LO/OO/(usually but sometimes not with SO). Excel...

It sort of works like running Windows as a limited user; whenever you want to change something, or run something that has to access certain APIs like HWInfo, you have to enter the admin password. If you run permanently as admin, of course, as MS by default sets you up in Win10-11 (with MS...

In that case you will probably wait forever. With Ubuntu-based distros, at least, you only get an updated repository when you do a major version update of the distro. And even then you'll likely be out of date by a few point versions. If you want apps to be fully up to date, you usually have to...

Largely by Just Doing It - why bother with all that administrative stuff? His power supply certain fits that approach - takes a while to add power lines, substation, etc. so just light up every portable generator available from within a dozen states and carry on regardless as nearly the largest...

I originally got a PC so that I would not be tied to time-shared mainframes for computing. Ditto PCs in the office - yes, they were (eventually) connected to servers and That Mainframe by networking, but the processing remained fundamentally local. Not happy about the PC being turned back into...