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Lets talk about Windows 7 and 10 and other things.
It really is more KDE than linux for me I would say. If you like Windows KDE is just such an upgrade. I literally don't know any Unix commands.
Of course you do give up a bunch of trading software. That is the downside but it is easy enough to dual boot.
My uptime is 28 days right now so I haven't bothered to go into Windows in almost a month. For browsing I would never browse in Windows, that just seems crazy.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
I empathize with anyone who has trouble with W10 updates, and I do know how aggravating unexplained (and unfixed) computer problems are.
Here's why everyone should always make sure they have the most up-to-date version of either Windows or whatever system they are using.
Quick summary: there is a tool called "EternalBlue" that the US National Security Agency developed for spying that somehow got released into the world by a group that apparently didn't approve of NSA. It exploits a problem in Windows that NSA found (and didn't report to Microsoft, since they wanted to use it, not to have Microsoft fix it ) that allows a hacker to break into any Windows computer. A neat trick if you're a bad guy or a spy.
When the tool got out, NSA quietly told Microsoft about the issue and Microsoft fixed the vulnerability that allowed the tool to work. All computers that got the subsequent update are protected.
Once the thing got out into the wild, the bad guys started using it. Right now the city government of Baltimore is all tied up because their computers don't work, and the bad guys are demanding a ransom to untie them. If city government had taken the elementary step of making sure all their computers stayed up to date, they would not have this problem.
It went world-wide in the "WannaCry" attack, which affected entire countries. (Ones where the governments and/or major businesses hadn't bothered to be sure they were updated.)
The main reason I want to take every update is not that I am excited by the idea of Microsoft giving me some great new functionality -- usually they don't. I am excited about getting the latest bug fixes (not everyone realizes that all complex software always has bugs, some of which last for years) and especially the fixes to whatever virus/hacker-related issues that the virus research community has uncovered.
This is not only a Windows problem. Windows has more hackers working on it because more people use Windows -- hackers go where the market is. No operating system, no matter how designed, would withstand the concentrated efforts of the hacker community if there were some money in it (or excitement or challenge or whatever turns them on). Those guys are good. (Even though they are bad .) Some of the hackers work for governments (some for the NSA, for instance....)
In the Windows 10 May 2019 Update,
>Cortana will be separated from the search box in the taskbar.
5 stars, I always turn it off any way.
>Microsoft’s native browser will now be Chromium-based.
4 stars, I use chrome not IE so MS has seen the light.
>The Windows 10 May 2019 Update will allow people using Windows 10 Home edition to pause Windows updates
for a set number of days.
1 star, 7 days is not enough
Not sure what you're talking about when you say W10 is unstable. I'm not some uber Microsoft fan but it's been pretty damn reliable for me. W7 was awesome and I actually like it better than 10 but yeah, it's basically deprecated. 8.1 was never... ever... good lol. W10 is a vast improvement. Seems the choice is obvious
Windows 7 support ends January 2020, you don't like Windows 8 so gets Windows 10. Seems pretty obvious to me.
I have never had any problems with Windows 10, any update issues that were reported never happened to me.
Either that or go and buy a Mac, or run Linux, and then have to buy some Windows emulator software to run the trading software you presumably want to use that in almost all cases will only work on Windows.
You do not win as a trader, you just get to play again the next day. If that game doesn’t appeal to you then you should not trade. Gary Norden