Bash on Windows 10

dmull

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LOL, I knew Ubuntu was geared towards windows users and made it easy for them to convert to linux. Now with Win 10 being so bad and buggy, they are switching over to a linux based sytems
 

dmull

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strokerace said:
LOL, I knew Ubuntu was geared towards windows users and made it easy for them to convert to linux. Now with Win 10 being so bad and buggy, they are switching over to a linux based sytems

Honestly, Windows 10 is not as buggy as people seem. Everything I have thrown at it seems to process everything fine.

Especially with the DirectX 12 that is in the works as well as being able to run NVidia as well as ATI cards together in the same machine.

I do know that with Windows 7 on an old Dell D630 (2 gigs of ram) it was very sluggish. I threw Windows 10 on it and it was keeping up very well.
 
Oh its buggy alright. People don't see it as they threw a bunch ram at it to smooth it out. It lasted 10 mins on my computer. Biggest mistake since windows ME
 

dmull

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Interesting, sure it is not because there maybe an underlying problem elsewhere? I have had it on this Dell D630 laptop for 8 months with only 2 gigs of ram and still runs as smooth as it does with my gaming tower with 16 gigs of ram.


strokerace said:
Oh its buggy alright. People don't see it as they threw a bunch ram at it to smooth it out. It lasted 10 mins on my computer. Biggest mistake since windows ME

Throwing ram at anything does not fix the bugs. It will still act up regardless. This is IT knowledge 101. RAM doesn't fix bugs.

You must update your drivers afterwards as that will cause unstableness. Perhaps this was your problem? But I thought most people that are tech gurus knew to update drivers after a but OS update.
 

Genesis

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dmull said:
But I thought most people that are tech gurus knew to update drivers after a but OS update.
An excellent reason why I'm perfectly happy with Windows 7. Was difficult to find a driver for my very old printer, as HP didn't want to create drivers for Windows 7 for this printer, basically nixing it. In the end I got it to work with its very original 2001 driver. I thought it was the end and for the heck of it inserted my very old printer CD and that worked. Doubt it will with Windows 10. But now I have a question here. Why would I want to change to Windows 10? When I don't need it? I'm OK with Windows 7. Everything works fine.
 

GigaGreg

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Genesis said:
But I thought most people that are tech gurus knew to update drivers after a but OS update.
An excellent reason why I'm perfectly happy with Windows 7. Was difficult to find a driver for my very old printer, as HP didn't want to create drivers for Windows 7 for this printer, basically nixing it. In the end I got it to work with its very original 2001 driver. I thought it was the end and for the heck of it inserted my very old printer CD and that worked. Doubt it will with Windows 10. But now I have a question here. Why would I want to change to Windows 10? When I don't need it? I'm OK with Windows 7. Everything works fine.
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How about the security updates after the Microsoft ends the support for Win7? ;)
 

dmull

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Genesis said:
dmull said:
But I thought most people that are tech gurus knew to update drivers after a but OS update.
An excellent reason why I'm perfectly happy with Windows 7. Was difficult to find a driver for my very old printer, as HP didn't want to create drivers for Windows 7 for this printer, basically nixing it. In the end I got it to work with its very original 2001 driver. I thought it was the end and for the heck of it inserted my very old printer CD and that worked. Doubt it will with Windows 10. But now I have a question here. Why would I want to change to Windows 10? When I don't need it? I'm OK with Windows 7. Everything works fine.

You can use USBView and write your driver for it. This is what I did with my Xbox controller to work on my PC :)

Just edit the current driver that you have now.
 
dmull said:
Interesting, sure it is not because there maybe an underlying problem elsewhere? I have had it on this Dell D630 laptop for 8 months with only 2 gigs of ram and still runs as smooth as it does with my gaming tower with 16 gigs of ram.


strokerace said:
Oh its buggy alright. People don't see it as they threw a bunch ram at it to smooth it out. It lasted 10 mins on my computer. Biggest mistake since windows ME

Throwing ram at anything does not fix the bugs. It will still act up regardless. This is IT knowledge 101. RAM doesn't fix bugs.

You must update your drivers afterwards as that will cause unstableness. Perhaps this was your problem? But I thought most people that are tech gurus knew to update drivers after a but OS update.





First off. buggy has nothing to do with drivers. It has to do with poor coding. Second, poor performance due to coding can be hidden with more ram.

Open up the resource manager and look at the million operations going on. 5 times the amount as windows 7. There is no O/S that needs that many resources running at the same time. Therefore, more ram and you will not notice it.

Prime example, my laptop fan is screaming at top speed while running windows 10. Switch to Linux and you can barely hear it run. This is the same thing for XP.

So tell me, how can updating drivers that are updated already fix that?? I figured 16 gigs of ddr3 ram would be enough! I would hate to see how it would run on a AMD cpu as then run faster then an Intel.

I fix and repair computers and I get about a dozen a month where the owner wants windows 10 removed.
 

dmull

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strokerace said:
dmull said:
Interesting, sure it is not because there maybe an underlying problem elsewhere? I have had it on this Dell D630 laptop for 8 months with only 2 gigs of ram and still runs as smooth as it does with my gaming tower with 16 gigs of ram.


strokerace said:
Oh its buggy alright. People don't see it as they threw a bunch ram at it to smooth it out. It lasted 10 mins on my computer. Biggest mistake since windows ME

Throwing ram at anything does not fix the bugs. It will still act up regardless. This is IT knowledge 101. RAM doesn't fix bugs.

You must update your drivers afterwards as that will cause unstableness. Perhaps this was your problem? But I thought most people that are tech gurus knew to update drivers after a but OS update.





First off. buggy has nothing to do with drivers. It has to do with poor coding. Second, poor performance due to coding can be hidden with more ram.

Open up the resource manager and look at the million operations going on. 5 times the amount as windows 7. There is no O/S that needs that many resources running at the same time. Therefore, more ram and you will not notice it.

Prime example, my laptop fan is screaming at top speed while running windows 10. Switch to Linux and you can barely hear it run. This is the same thing for XP.

So tell me, how can updating drivers that are updated already fix that?? I figured 16 gigs of ddr3 ram would be enough! I would hate to see how it would run on a AMD cpu as then run faster then an Intel.

I fix and repair computers and I get about a dozen a month where the owner wants windows 10 removed.



You have the right to feel the way you feel about Windows 10. I have Windows 10 running on about 10 AMD CPUs and they work great. I also have it installed on many more Intel CPUs (work) and works just fine as well.

As far as your laptop, most linux OS's are very light weight, unlike Windows. In my opinion, Windows is a resource hog.

Like I have said before, I have Windows 10 running with only 2 gigs of ram. I have yet to see any bugs anywhere, and with the minimum amount of ram, I should see what you are seeing, hence is why I suggested updating drivers.

Just because someone (I know many) dislikes and talks bad about Windows 10 is why others come to those to remove it. Funny that I talk decent about it and they want to upgrade.

I do not want to argue as I am just stating the facts. I am even running the Insider Preview 14316 and barely see any bugs in it (there have been a few).

For the record, I also work on PCs and networks for a career.
 

dee1337

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actually it's quite cool to have all my linux commands on windows. but it's meant for developers. you can't change your mac adress or stuff that would be cool to be able to change within windows. and, more importantly, you can't really setup most common server services within windows-ubuntu-bash. at least atm, from what i know