Windows barely installs these days, even with valid license, and has much worse hardware compatibility than Linux. Maybe Windows 10 has improved over Windows 8 somewhat, but got even more drawbacks than ever. Linux Mint at least tries to install all drivers by default. Sometimes, a thing or two gets fucked up and dependency hell is always underestimated by everyone, so while not perfect by a long shot, it's best bet if you install OS from scratch. Freedom is underestimated too.
I was under the impression that Linux distos today ship with a large variety of drivers. I also believe there is auto probing/detection of devices and UDEV manages on the fly creation/deletion of driver entry points in /dev. If the driver is not present than a brief crash course on the device package repositories, Managers and installers (YUM and RPM) should not take too long . YUM with an option I cant recall, determines and installs dependencies automatically as well. Things have changed with Linux devices to emulate Windows Plug andPlay. Least that's what I am told.
Yeah I think so too... next laptop is going to have a SSD. But for now, I don't want to fiddle with the hardware so much... thanks for the suggestion mate.
In general I'm not productive at all... usually I just sit on my ass and watch porn .. I don't really want to do a lot of tech, but I'll give Linux a go as OS. Test it first on my laptop... if it's a hassle, I'll just switch back to Win. For now... I'm getting pissed off already, because the GRUB installation keeps failing... so up until now... Win vs Lin... -1 vs 0
All good suggestions, but I already do that regularly... I don't have that many programs on my laptop anymore, just trading platform, MS office... that's about it. I almost daily do CCleaner and SuperanitSpyware... and now and then run Malwarebytes. I'm on to the point that it's definitely Windows fault, hahaa... if I do a clean install... it runs fine for about 1-2 weeks... then it starts to significantly slow. Crap... I'll see how this ends up and if that doesn't improve I will let everyone know what new laptop I got Laptop is not the main trading station anyway.
Just buy a MAC and watch all your windows issues go away. This does pose a issue with finding a compatible trading platform, but I assure you they are out there.
MAC is a great PC but when you buy a MAC, you pay between $1700 to $3000 for a laptop and when you want to buy a Windows laptop, you buy a $350 one and then you want to compare them. Buy a $2000 Windows laptop and then compare with a MAC.
I have 2 laptops. Both Dell XPS17Z and XPS 14Z. Both are 5 years old and both have I7 second generation processor. 17 inch one is ON 24/7 and 14 inch which I carry is always in hibernate mode (I do not turn it off) and I had no problem with speed. Maybe bringing up the OS takes long time and when it is ON, it works fine. Am I right? When I want to buy a laptop, I do not buy a brand. I buy the specification. I do not need the highest spec as I might not need it and I do not want to spend money on something that I will not use it. Now I believe you have enough info to try stuff and maybe buy a newer laptop (something around $700 to $1000).
I have made the switchto MacBook Pro from a similarly priced laptop (one of the fancy Sony ones). I will never go back. It’s just a. so well made, down to tiny details b. SW/HW is properly integrated c. gives you both the stability of *nix and application range of a retail operating system