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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @12:23AM
In Linux I can at least configure swappiness at desired value. Then I can set when I want it to swap.
And if You have 600MB of swap used from start and there is a modern amount of RAM, something IS wrong. My setup for 2GB machines at boot has only a few MBs of swap used and lots of RAM directed to buffers (read: free for programs). Maybe check for "update manager"-like processes? They are common in some distros and they may try to cram a whole package lists to memory. Or some hand-built program is made with debug symbols?
And about the default shell: This is also very confusing, different in each computer. Searching for programs, especially using Windows built-in search box, causes launching wrong programs in such cases. If I want to work in other PC, I constantly use Win+R dialog. This works in many Linux desktops too. It is almost like Windows search box, but launches what user wants, not what is close enough.
About path: Unfortunately no, that's an unchangeable option of GTK version 3, WONTFIXed. I can force default path for some applications, and for unknown reason still not all (in other I end in a "recently used" thing, maybe OK for office work, but useless for multitasking), but even when I click to other directory and use the boss key, the path will not pop in there. This is a known error.
About 1200W PC: This is a typical set-up for running simulation-related computations. Bursts of 100% CPU and GPU usage are fortunately only about one third of a total run time, and hard disks rarely go all three on a high usage.