Living in a world without Windows (or Videoredo)

Owen Smith said:
I hate modern laptops, they're not a real computers they don't have video ports or optical drives or anything else, they're just tablets plus a keyboard. But I do want something I can take to my parents.
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I'm not too fond of mine. It's a low end HP. 2 standard USB, one new USB and HDMI. No optical drive, no lan port and only just adequate memory. Not forgetting a small SSD. Going to be a bugger getting into the laptop to replace the battery and SSD. At current prices I expect they'd cost more than the laptop did.
 
Black Hole said:
I hear M$ has brought out their own Linux distro. Anyone flocking to that???!
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I hadn't heard about that, but I assume it will rape and pillage your personal information and sell it to the highest bidder just as all M$ products do. Why on earth would anyone get a distro from them when there are so many good ones to choose from? A distro from Microshaft would be the antithesis of what Linux is meant to be about.
 
Owen Smith said:
I hate modern laptops, they're not a real computers they don't have video ports or optical drives or anything else, they're just tablets plus a keyboard.
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They do if you pick pro or business models. I got my current one about 18 months ago after getting pi$$ed off with Dell's Black Friday deals (which just wasted loads of time on the configuration tool and then more with their up-selling, finally telling me that my model wasn't available; repeat twice more to get down to the most basic model - still not available) and found something on e8ay which was a screen/keyboard upgrade on what I then had as a work PC (and mostly hated for laptop use).
This one isn't bad - two USB-C, two USB-A, full-size HDMI, one of those expanding network sockets, an audio out, SD card slot and an SC card slot (no idea what use that is).
EEPhil said:
I'm not too fond of mine. It's a low end HP. 2 standard USB, one new USB and HDMI. No optical drive, no lan port
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They expect you to use a USB-C expansion thingy. I kept the one from my old work PC (it's a consumable) but hardly ever use it.
only just adequate memory. Not forgetting a small SSD. Going to be a bugger getting into the laptop to replace the battery and SSD.
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First thing I did was double the memory from 8 to 16GB. The SSD is actually NVMe and is not that huge, but it's good enough for what I want.
I looked at the cheap HP/Dell models and thought they looked like a nightmare.
 
prpr said:
I looked at the cheap HP/Dell models and thought they looked like a nightmare.
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Fingers crossed, with a fault on the update I haven't had some of the problems others have. I had to buy a separate USB to lan lead and I've already got a usb dvd drive. Keep most stuff on USB disks (real spinning ones). Also fairly frequent backups of the system drive. Turned off all the AI slop. It certainly works a lot faster than my old £1200 XP laptop. I should hope so, that is 20 years old.
 
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