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[kage]

But honestly unless you really wanna use Ms office ( that too is easy to use offline )

Don't even need to do that nowadays.

Only Office maintains very good compatibility with MS Office formats.
The UI is extremely close too.
And best of all, the Document editors are free, work offline, and their binaries are available for both Windows and Linux (maybe macOS as well, not sure).

It might be a bit slow if you use huge spreadsheets and the like, but for normal home usage, I find it more than sufficient.
It has gotten to the point where I prefer using OO for my Windows partition as well lol.

 

[nick.knack91011]

Don't even need to do that nowadays.

Only Office maintains very good compatibility with MS Office formats.
The UI is extremely close too.
And best of all, the Document editors are free, work offline, and their binaries are available for both Windows and Linux (maybe macOS as well, not sure).

It might be a bit slow if you use huge spreadsheets and the like, but for normal home usage, I find it more than sufficient.
It has gotten to the point where I prefer using OO for my Windows partition as well lol.

Ohh i don't disagree , open office libre office and so on but i do feel with excel and all especially formulas and people who are used to ms office for years and shortcuts it's hard to switch so i recommend online office.

For us tech geeks it's obv not an issue

You got a point there,
When windows become absolute dog water ( there was time when it became absolutely unusable n no matter what I tried didn't work ) and I changed to linux mint.
And my got it was such a relief moment.
Though it is also true after a couple years when I returned to windows it had become way more stable than expected.

I agree i feel win 11 is stable compared to past garbage of 7/8 even 10 although it's still too clutttered.

I still miss / love xp though , it could run smooth af even on 256gb ram system with right tuning and was godsend for gaming .

 

[PunkX 75]

I still miss / love xp though , it could run smooth af even on 256gb ram system

256 GB of RAM? What unreleased/experimental version of XP were you running

 

[kage]

but i do feel with excel and all especially formulas and people who are used to ms office for years and shortcuts it's hard to switch

True.
Excel is the only thing that's keeping MS Office relevant.

I hope Only Office and Libre eventually catch up to it. OO comes the closest because it tries to maintain feature and UX parity, but the performance is still lacking (along with some advanced features).

Although I will say, it has been very easy to pick up for someone coming from MS Office. Even my senior citizen dad made the transition easily, which is something!

 

[YeAhx]

I can pretty much bet its the connection being loose or something. Use another SATA cable AND another port on the motherboard. This way you eliminate two possible points which could be the cause.

You did say your windows was fresh but if it's not the loose connection that's causing this it's really "system.exe" that's causing this then that's 100% a malware. Download Rkill and malwarebytes from bleepingcomputer or another trusted source and run them both (TWICE just to be sure).

 

[nick.knack91011]

256 GB of RAM? What unreleased/experimental version of XP were you running

Mb* . Shows modern age we live in, i have worked with floppy drives growing up and playing Dave 2d and now even when I wanna say Mb it's always slips out as Gb ,even Gb feel less now days it's mostly TBs

Edit : Also funnily enough i was talking to a friend other day and word TB slipped out of my mouth ( as he recently purchased 1 Tb cloud storage from Dropbox ) and my mom sitting next to me asked later if my friend was fine and needed any help ( he visits home regularly ) , only couple of hours later it struck me she thought TB meant tuberculosis ...

 

[TheITN3RD]

Think is now linux especially mint fedora and pop are so easy to maintain even a 4yr old can install it out of the both , and i would say even gaming is great on them ( not windows great but still ) just a few softwares i use like foobar brings me back to windows so i dual boot even though strawberry is fine .

But honestly unless you really wanna use Ms office ( that too is easy to use offline ) Linux is just way more convinient to install / backup safer encrypted and never fails.

There's a huge difference in speed and stability compared to couple years back with linux re kernels and windows after a period will always end up lagging like androids if you don't maintain it well and someone who hates closed ecosystems like ios and macs linux seems best mid solution with flexibility it offers and I always keep a windows boot usb anyway if i feel like switching .

I think op should try mint for sure or xfce if he wants something lighter as it literally takes 5 minutes to install it nowadays. I prefer fedora but for newbies mint is amazing.

My job profile is SME and i work on Windows, RHEL & Ubuntu......i am a hardcore gamer so imho linux is not a good option when it comes to gaming....plus working with windows and linux has taught me windows is easy ...you really need to have a nerdy personality to work with Package Management/Repositories/Update Commands etc. ...now when ever i type the the word "sudo/sudo apt-get" or "yum" ...i am like no ways i have dealt with that s#it whole day....just want to come home where my windows is updated automatically , steam\epic\EA has already updated of my favorite games...just couple of clicks and i ready to kick a$$ in CS:GO/Apex/Warzone etc.

not complaining when i was running multiple VM's phase , centOS really came in handy, plus used mint/kali for some light penetration testing

Is this a 6th or 7th gen system by any chance ?

unfortunately i stopped building gaming rigs when GFX prices hit the fan amidst crypto boom.....my current setup is i7 4790/16gb/1060OC....no complains i can still play all latest games at 1080p

Mb* . Shows modern age we live in, i have worked with floppy drives growing up and playing Dave 2d and now even when I wanna say Mb it's always slips out as Gb ,even Gb feel less now days it's mostly TBs

Edit : Also funnily enough i was talking to a friend other day and word TB slipped out of my mouth ( as he recently purchased 1 Tb cloud storage from Dropbox ) and my mom sitting next to me asked later if my friend was fine and needed any help ( he visits home regularly ) , only couple of hours later it struck me she thought TB meant tuberculosis ...

i almost had a mini heart attack after reading GB .....that for XP

 

[nick.knack91011]

My job profile is SME and i work on Windows, RHEL & Ubuntu......i am a hardcore gamer so imho linux is not a good option when it comes to gaming....plus working with windows and linux has taught me windows is easy ...you really need to have a nerdy personality to work with Package Management/Repositories/Update Commands etc. ...now when ever i type the the word "sudo/sudo apt-get" or "yum" ...i am like no ways i have dealt with that s#it whole day....just want to come home where my windows is updated automatically , steam\epic\EA has already updated of my favorite games...just couple of clicks and i ready to kick a$$ in CS:GO/Apex/Warzone etc.

not complaining when i was running multiple VM's phase , centOS really came in handy, plus used mint/kali for some light penetration testing

unfortunately i stopped building gaming rigs when GFX prices hit the fan amidst crypto boom.....my current setup is i7 4790/16gb/1060OC....no complains i can still play all latest games at 1080p

i almost had a mini heart attack after reading GB .....that for XP

I would say linux is easier personally, you install mint now it comes with firefox a software / apps Store media player codecs what else do you need ? Netflix is there ..if anything windows has too many distractions and sooner or later it always becomes ' heavy ' and hangs.

Ofcourse if you are using it for work that's different, and yeah gaming is more optimised on windows nobody denies that. But for general entertainment surfing and coding purposes i prefer linux specifically fedora, also backups and snapshots are easy af.

I think most people notion of linux is from few years back when it was basically ubuntu and you had download packages update kernels package managers drivers manually and it was a pain. Now it's just lock and load takes 10 minutes to install especially modern distributions of pop mint fedora etc with kde and so on and no crapware or auto running services , plus it requires much less ram to run smooth .

Only caveat for me is windows generally always has much better battery optimisations for me and runs longer in my laptop and i still can't find foobar equivalent on linux which means i dual boot.