TOTALLY NEW WINDOWS 10 WARNING: DO NOT CLICK TO SAY NO!
In the dialog box that pops up asking if you want to install, there is a red X. X means no, right? Well, not with Microsoft's latest trick. Clicking no in the dialog box will trigger the install.
I am going to get an Athlon 64X4, install Windows XP professional, get a bunch of spare parts, and make that my offline flagship. That setup is so powerful it is totally without limits. The old athlon 64 quad core was so potent it still blows away most of what is on the market today, and since XP professional will run on it correctly, seeing all cores without issue, on top of the fact that XP was made to perform well on garbage, when it runs on that particular athlon that is still great by today's standards you will see sub five second boot times with the right hard drive and after boot everything you try is instantaneous.
Come on now, if all you want is productivity software, who needs more than XP? Mid 2000's software was all perfectly capable, what is any better now? Windows 10 makes it clear: The way forward is to step back to XP, and run it on something GREAT.
They way forward is NOT to step back to windows 7. Because when you see the upgrade path to windows 10, everything from 7 forward is included. That means that even windows 7 most likely is nothing but cheesecloth. And since XP worked great, why not?
People need to snap out of the mindset that "new is better". It is simply not true when it comes to computers anymore. I can obviously see that there is a very good reason to upgrade from Windows 98, but windows XP professional passed a milestone and the modern operating systems, (outside of things that were introduced to intentionally obsolete XP) are not one bit better. In fact, they are a LOT WORSE, they are not one bit more capable than XP in productivity apps and they hog CPU like crazy. And the CPU hogging is for one purpose: To add more encryption to the operating system to make it that much more hopeless for anyone to figure out what the OS is doing in the background. To make it that much easier to rape you.
XP it is. Or Linux / BSD.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/26/microsoft_clarifies_upgrade_trick/
In the dialog box that pops up asking if you want to install, there is a red X. X means no, right? Well, not with Microsoft's latest trick. Clicking no in the dialog box will trigger the install.
I am going to get an Athlon 64X4, install Windows XP professional, get a bunch of spare parts, and make that my offline flagship. That setup is so powerful it is totally without limits. The old athlon 64 quad core was so potent it still blows away most of what is on the market today, and since XP professional will run on it correctly, seeing all cores without issue, on top of the fact that XP was made to perform well on garbage, when it runs on that particular athlon that is still great by today's standards you will see sub five second boot times with the right hard drive and after boot everything you try is instantaneous.
Come on now, if all you want is productivity software, who needs more than XP? Mid 2000's software was all perfectly capable, what is any better now? Windows 10 makes it clear: The way forward is to step back to XP, and run it on something GREAT.
They way forward is NOT to step back to windows 7. Because when you see the upgrade path to windows 10, everything from 7 forward is included. That means that even windows 7 most likely is nothing but cheesecloth. And since XP worked great, why not?
People need to snap out of the mindset that "new is better". It is simply not true when it comes to computers anymore. I can obviously see that there is a very good reason to upgrade from Windows 98, but windows XP professional passed a milestone and the modern operating systems, (outside of things that were introduced to intentionally obsolete XP) are not one bit better. In fact, they are a LOT WORSE, they are not one bit more capable than XP in productivity apps and they hog CPU like crazy. And the CPU hogging is for one purpose: To add more encryption to the operating system to make it that much more hopeless for anyone to figure out what the OS is doing in the background. To make it that much easier to rape you.
XP it is. Or Linux / BSD.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/26/microsoft_clarifies_upgrade_trick/