Windows 7 reported as starting update to Windows 10 for some without permission.

userque said:
:)

When could it happen: depends.

You can increase your chances of it not happening by researching updates before downloading/installing them. Uninstalling certain updates, etc. There are also other things you can do as well, some listed here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/228551/how...-8-from-downloading-windows-10-automatically/
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+1,

I personally trust howtogeek, very useful resource

In addition to ghacks, paul Thurrot is also a good resource for Windows news, tips and information
 
yep, confirmed by Thurrot (just catching up to my Sunday reading) lol

Does look like ghacks advised of it much earlier, need to bookmark them in my daily reading list... ;o)
 
m1nt said:
....... my future purchases will definitely be running Apple or even Linux............
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I'm running Ubuntu Mate 15.10 on a new Acer desktop. Even though it came with Windows 10 I formatted the disk and replaced the OS with Linux - no dual boot.

Linux is great BUT hardware and software support is still lacking. I like Linux for personal use but I would never recommend it to anyone.



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I can recommend Linux to everybody, but one must be aware that it requires some more intellectual capacity from the user.
It all is just a matter of experience with computers.

But as OptionGuru mentioned, one should look for and use hardware that is supported by Linux.
Most hardware is already supported, but there are some hw-companies who produce only
for the Windows market (or Mac market).

Regarding software: similar situation: some (mostly very special) software is written explicitly for Windows or Mac.
But one can easily find out what works and what doesn't, by researching on the net...

And: under Linux one can also use the VirtualBox software, wherein one can run other operating systems, like Windows, or other Linux distributions; it is freely available.

Under Linux the LibreOffice package is available for free. It is IMO as good as MS Office.

And: for developers: Linux has already many compilers and interpreters available, so no need to pay for a compiler.

And: all web programs had their origin on Unix/Linux and are of course freely available, so no need to pay for a WebServer, SQL server, DNS server, Mail server, News server, time server, version revision system,.... endless much free software (even with source code) is availabe under Linux...

I personally use Debian Linux ( http://www.debian.org ).
Ubuntu ( http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop ) I can recommend as well, as it builds on Debian.

The Linux market is growing steadily, many companies offer commercial products and services for Linux.
Linux doesn't need to make big advertisements. Linux is already the future.

Btw, in case you didn't know: Apple's OS X and also Google's Android operating systems are
as well Unix-like operating systems, ie. they are similar to Linux, or vica-versa :D
Windows has no future, IMO, especially for the professional users and power users, and nowadays most students learn about and work on Linux systems...
 
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For software like Ninjatrader, it will still mostly work under VirtualBox, which is free of charge. So, today it's entirely possible to do most everything you need using Linux.

What I would recommend for people wanting to investigate Linux, is to start with Linux Mint (also Free): https://linuxmint.com/download.php
It's actually a distro made for the users, and try to support most of the things users actually want to do, without requiring too much fuzz and hand holding the system.

Regarding hardware requirements, Windows certified hardware is often really not compatible with other versions of Windows itself. So in reality, Linux, in all its various forms and shapes, actually stand a better chance of supporting your hardware, especially older ones. It may sometimes require some extra work though, when Linux fails to detect hardware or require extra drivers for something. The solution is rarely longer than a few search-clicks away. Or you can just try a different distro, which might do the trick. Point is, with Linux you are free to have choice, to tinker with your OS and to learn from it, which is going to become a big selling point for desktop users, as well as being able to verify and trust your own system to do what you expect it to.

Gaming you can get via Steam, where the list of supported games for Linux just keeps growing due to Steam console being based on Linux.

I do object with Libre Office (former "Open Office") being as good as MS Office. MS Office products are actually very high quality products. Ie. you can make sheets in Excel that just require too much CPU-time in Libre Office, and Libre Office doesn't even support references to entire columns and rows, which is often required in order to scale. You might say that one shouldn't make multi-megabyte Excel sheets, but then I would humbly ask who you are to decide what people should do on their computers? The answer is that the computer is a tool, and should be improved, not limited, as such. Those who fail to realize this, will simply become irrelevant in the coming digital age. Libre Office is sadly, not very user-friendly or useful for anything but the simplest and smallest tasks. Luckily, MS Office runs fine within VirtualBox or VMWare, as do lots of other Windows-only software.
 
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You really need to understand that all that things doesn't really matter anyway. What kind of info do you have on your PC really there ? Something really matters here at all ? I do not see any point with that. Now everyone under Windows 10 and drivers already updated.
 
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