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tl;dr: Directing the wind is not possible, being compelled to adjust my sails. How can I transition to Windows 10 and not suffer extreme loss in productivity.
Windows Classic Theme: How do I get something like this. I assume other Soylentils are like me and the first thing they do when logging onto a Windows XP/7 computer is change the theme to classic. Has anyone done this yet on Windows 10? In my very brief experience dealing with 10 I was unable to find a way to do this, I presume that they removed this because they are awful people.
Specifications: How powerful of a computer do I need to do the same thing I am currently able to do without any lag. I was compelled to do testing using an i7 laptop with 8gb of ram from a couple of years ago, I found I was unable to do any testing because it was bogged down at 95% CPU capacity just running the base OS. What should I be running to make this thing bearable. My job function is to review, build, maintain reports which can involve files large enough to bog me down on my current system (i7-5600U with 8gb), what hardware should I have, how much ram should I have.
Experience: What lessons did others here learn the hard way as they went though this process. I am aware of the updates causing data to be non exist and things of that nature. What are things that I need to know about in this new age of 10.
I am sure there are some other things I should ask, just can't remember ATM.
Just run Linux XD: I am not allowed to withdraw consent from Windows 10, but I am pushing off implementation as long as possible.
[For information about issues with Windows' updates, see Ask Woody. --Ed]
(Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Thursday November 01 2018, @06:27PM (1 child)
Dual Xeons with 32 cores each, running overclocked at 5GHz with massive water cooling, 1Tb of DDR4 2.6GHz RAM, 1Tb SSD for the filesystem & eight 15Tb HDDs for storeage, pumped through four Quadro video cards with 12Gb VRAM apiece...
All so I can play Rogue!
*Cough*
=-)p
I've just picked up a used Dell T7910 tower workstation off Ebay.
Only one Xeon running at 3.6GHz, 32Gb RAM, a 256Gb SSD, & low end Nvidia video card.
It's got Win8.1Pro on it, I have no intention of downgrading to Win10.
It's total overkill for my needs, but then my reasons for getting it in the first place was *because* it was complete overkill.
I've got a 4th gen Intel NUC I3 dual core at 2GHz, 16Gb RAM, & a 240Gb SSD that feels slow.
I wanted an upgrade, checked out a Mac Mini but realized it was the same level of hardware as I already had.
(Those bastards go & release the new MM yesterday AFTER I'd already bought the Dell!)
I'd considered the latest NUC, but as far as I could tell it was still limited to 16Gb(?) which wasn't enough.
Evidently a screen reader, Outlook, a zillion instances of Notepad editing plain text files, IE11 open with a zillion tabs, & File Explorer all open at the same time can slow a computer to a crawl.
Who knew?
*Cough*
*Sigh*
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 01 2018, @10:48PM
Hard to know when the sarcasm begins and ends here. 8 GB of RAM should be enuff for a NUC.
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