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Ed in Tampa wrote:I have been an PC person from day one.
However I see many advantages in the way Apple does business.
Case in point in the last years most of their operation system updates were free. Now Microsoft is giving free up dates.

Windows came out with plug and play which Apple already had. Windows came out with gui which Apple already had.

Now we are finding many drivers for Windows 10 do not exist. Microsoft say it is the machine manufactures responsibility to write them but the OEM get no return. PC manufactures makes nothing having a programmer develop a new driver for a new release of Windows for machines they sold 4 years ago.

Apple often wrote their own drivers so that Oem machines would work correctly on their operating system. Plus Apple machines let you run Apple OS and Windows.

I can understand most old PC users don't like Apple. Apple's thrust is making it easy to get needed data. windows is thrust is running the computer. I talked to a Microsoft person at the Microsoft store about the Surface pro 3. I had done a number of searches in the MS App Store for apps I love on the iPad, non existed. So I asked about it. The person said why would you want an app when you can use a full program to do the same thing. I tried to explain that with an app I didn't have to install it, didn't have worry about needed hardware, didn't need a driver, didn't need to back it up, and if I'm not using it I don't even have to keep it on my machine. Plus it is designed to do exactly what I want I don't have to configure it or decide what modules I want to include or not. It doesn't try to install junk ware, give me a unneeded tool bar, change my computers default settings.

Example if I want to see the weather on Windows I must sign on Internet search for a weather info supplier and the go to their site and the select what weather I want. On my iPad I simple press the weather app icon and I'm given a picture of radar for my area along with temp, humidity, current conditions. I can select to see a 7 day forecast or what weather is like anywhere in the world. I realize I can set most of this up in windows but I must set it up on the iPad app it takes my GPS location and does the rest.

skou wrote:

Ed in Tampa wrote:

Yes, I may take Cupertino and Redmond out of the equasion, by going with some version
of Linux, (But, Linux has a very STEEP learning curve.)(Oh, Cupertino, Apple. Redmond,
Microsoft. I grew up in Sunnyvale, and had a few friends that taught Steve and Steve at
Homestead High School. I went to Fremont High, in the same district.)

steve

garys wrote:

skou wrote:

Ed in Tampa wrote:

Yes, I may take Cupertino and Redmond out of the equasion, by going with some version
of Linux, (But, Linux has a very STEEP learning curve.)(Oh, Cupertino, Apple. Redmond,
Microsoft. I grew up in Sunnyvale, and had a few friends that taught Steve and Steve at
Homestead High School. I went to Fremont High, in the same district.)

steve

You might want to try Linux Mint. I find it easier to install, learn and run than any of the versions of Windows today. Linux progresses more in a year than Windows progresses in 5 years, and is fast surpassing Microsoft in user friendliness.