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Although I received it a few weeks ago, I haven't really gotten around to playing with my (new to me) laptop.
(waves to MM)
It's an HP ProBook 6450B I bought it more on a whim than a need. With 8 gigs of memory and an 2.7 ghz i5 inside, hardware wise it's probably a close match to my desktop which has a first generation i5 at 2.4 ghz but with 16 gigs of ram. The desktop has an SSD and a 1050ti graphics card, which beats the SATA drive and built in Intel HD graphics on the laptop but it's close enough.
And the lappy came with (unactivated) Windows 10. Now, I'm a Linux Grrl but I've heard a lot of screaming...er, comments about Windows 10 so I decided to poke at it and see what the fuss was about. Mind you, I haven't done any serious work with Windows since Win 98 but I've used most versions at work for quite some time.
So what's first? Read up on all the tweaks from Bob Rankin and set darn near everything to NO. With the normal install it seems to want to connect everything to everything and then send all that information to Microsoft. No.
Next? Download updates!
5 hours later....
Holy crap! That took forever! I could have installed Xbuntu on 3 machines (with updates) during that time. And that would have included an office suite! The next day it took 10 minutes to boot up and the flashing screens it nearly scared the pants off me - I thought I broke something.
It warned me against installing Pale Moon web browser - security you know, but it let me install it with no problems. Seems snappy enough but the start menu is a mess: so cluttered. There's a *lot* of disk drive activity - small wonder it eats up battery life.
Next? Download Windows installer and put it onto a USB stick! Because I'm a wolf... and I'll do what I want. It wants 8 gigs of USB... I've got 16.
First try... failed. "Something went wrong..." says Microsoft and my USB stick needs to be reformatted. Okay... try again. If it fails again I'll try just downloading the ISO and burning it to a DVD. Because I can.
I'll probably end up dual booting this puppy. Since the world insists on using Windows I might as well stay familiar with it. I might even install Windows 10 on one of my beaters just to mess around with.
-m
(waves to MM)
It's an HP ProBook 6450B I bought it more on a whim than a need. With 8 gigs of memory and an 2.7 ghz i5 inside, hardware wise it's probably a close match to my desktop which has a first generation i5 at 2.4 ghz but with 16 gigs of ram. The desktop has an SSD and a 1050ti graphics card, which beats the SATA drive and built in Intel HD graphics on the laptop but it's close enough.
And the lappy came with (unactivated) Windows 10. Now, I'm a Linux Grrl but I've heard a lot of screaming...er, comments about Windows 10 so I decided to poke at it and see what the fuss was about. Mind you, I haven't done any serious work with Windows since Win 98 but I've used most versions at work for quite some time.
So what's first? Read up on all the tweaks from Bob Rankin and set darn near everything to NO. With the normal install it seems to want to connect everything to everything and then send all that information to Microsoft. No.
Next? Download updates!
5 hours later....
Holy crap! That took forever! I could have installed Xbuntu on 3 machines (with updates) during that time. And that would have included an office suite! The next day it took 10 minutes to boot up and the flashing screens it nearly scared the pants off me - I thought I broke something.
It warned me against installing Pale Moon web browser - security you know, but it let me install it with no problems. Seems snappy enough but the start menu is a mess: so cluttered. There's a *lot* of disk drive activity - small wonder it eats up battery life.
Next? Download Windows installer and put it onto a USB stick! Because I'm a wolf... and I'll do what I want. It wants 8 gigs of USB... I've got 16.
First try... failed. "Something went wrong..." says Microsoft and my USB stick needs to be reformatted. Okay... try again. If it fails again I'll try just downloading the ISO and burning it to a DVD. Because I can.
I'll probably end up dual booting this puppy. Since the world insists on using Windows I might as well stay familiar with it. I might even install Windows 10 on one of my beaters just to mess around with.
-m
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So what's first? Read up on all the tweaks from Bob Rankin and set darn near everything to NO. With the normal install it seems to want to connect everything to everything and then send all that information to Microsoft. No.
That's MY kind of person. I turn everything off off off. Everything they let us turn off, anyway (there's always regedit for just shredding what's left and Group Policy Editor is great for tweaks you can't otherwise access through the UI. Just ask me - I am the Set Darn Near Everything to No person).
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Bought a new battery for it. The original would give me 40 minutes of simple use before it just choked. Now I'm getting over 2 hours.
I'll still probably end up dual booting it. What a hot mess 10 is.
-m
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In the meantime, some unsolicited advice - I just got done telling someone else how to find crap on Windows 10, which is not the easiest thing to do without the following workarounds:
1) If you've left Cortana turned on, you can use the search box on the taskbar to find and open whatever programs you might need (this includes Control Panel, Disk Management, Device Manager and non-MS programs you've downloaded from the internet, along with stock or downloaded Windows apps straight from the Store) and 2) use this (hopefully you're familiar with Everything; if not then just know it's great, doesn't automatically run a program for you but will find them and/or any other file or folder you're after).
Also gives you a nice insight into what's visible on your system if you just open it up and without typing anything in, just scroll through (for best results in any endeavor, enable NTFS indexing and run as admin).