Computer Talk II

test bd said:

Thanks Jeff. my keyboard is frozen. The mouse does work. So does the onscreen keyboard but it will not let me log into my computer.

My wife went out to eat with one of her daughters. When she gets back my wife will look at it. My wife is a whiz that this sort of problem. She calls herself the senior geek squad.

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Don't know if you have solved the issue yet. For my computer the laptop touchpad was missing original functionality. You can try to find the latest keyboard and touchpad drivers and see if it works. That helped me when I upgraded to Windows 10.

As for logging in, when you logged into hotmail or live using Windows 10, it would automatically link it to your current laptop (super annoying). When I first updated my computer, I have to disable everything about accounts and other annoying things.

Windows 10 could have been a nice operating system. The big negative is that it forces your computer to do things that you do not have easy command over and cause performance to drop when you need it

It was my desktop that was frozen. It was running ok soon after my post. I don't know what was the issue. I did a little research and I see that updates to windows 10 can cause your keyboard to freeze up. In some cases the mouse will cease to function.

I'm just happy my desktop is up and running.

ahho said:

Don't know if you have solved the issue yet. For my computer the laptop touchpad was missing original functionality. You can try to find the latest keyboard and touchpad drivers and see if it works. That helped me when I upgraded to Windows 10.

As for logging in, when you logged into hotmail or live using Windows 10, it would automatically link it to your current laptop (super annoying). When I first updated my computer, I have to disable everything about accounts and other annoying things.

Windows 10 could have been a nice operating system. The big negative is that it forces your computer to do things that you do not have easy command over and cause performance to drop when you need it

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Do you own the computer or does Microsoft? If MS annoys you go to a better operating system.

delft said:

Do you own the computer or does Microsoft? If MS annoys you go to a better operating system.

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Do you suggest Linux or Mac? For the former, you'll have great deal of time to find drivers and apps. For the later, you'll need a new computer.

SteelBird said:

Do you suggest Linux or Mac? For the former, you'll have great deal of time to find drivers and apps. For the later, you'll need a new computer.

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Years ago we tried a Mac but we didn't like it and remained with Linux. There are hundreds of ways for getting Linux from Linux From Scratch when you spend days to get exactly what you want, but hardly anyone has enough knowledge to want matters that precisely, to such distributions as Ubuntu and its relatives were there is often no problem at all to get the drivers you need. I'm now using Linux Mint, derived from Ubuntu, because my wife has installed the same on her mothers machine. She uses Arch Linux because that distribution gives her enough control over her machine. If she were to change her mind and want more she´d go to Gentoo Linux. We haven't had to look for missing drivers for years.

SteelBird said:

Do you suggest Linux or Mac? For the former, you'll have great deal of time to find drivers and apps.

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Not necessarily true on the drivers. In fact using the last several years of the mainstream distributions I have not had to do anything special to get operational.

On the app side, for mainstream apps I can do anything I want in a web browser. Email, wordprocessing, spreadsheets, etc., can all be replaced with browser based alternatives.

Conversely when it comes to development, I have far more tools at my disposal on Linux (and to some extent MacOS) than I do in Windows or other environments.

Linux depends a lot on the distribution. When it comes to desktop/laptop environment quite a few have gone out of business. During my college days Mandrake/Mandriva Linux was very popular. But that has no update since 2011. Your best bet is "Ubuntu" or one of its variants. "openSUSE" and "Linux Mint" are some of the other options. But remember, if you are a serious Gamer, then you will have to go with Windows or Mac for full range of games.

For servers, it is a completely different story. Linux is very vibrant in the enterprise sector.

And all super computers of the last many years run on Linux.

By the way, has anyone here purchased Samsung Galaxy Note 7?

Hyperwarp said:

By the way, has anyone here purchased Samsung Galaxy Note 7?

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I got away from the Note series and started dating a Huawei Mate8 because I wanted to experience the Chinese machine. However, why they skip Note6?