Thread: Advice: living without Microsoft...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Does that run on a Mac?

I still have the original MS Office 1998 on the mac, still work great

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

^ Glad it's working out.

I tried to install various versions of Linux on this old laptop and none worked.

try the older version of Ubuntu, it will certainly work

I am running 9.04 on a 2002 Laptop, no problem

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

^ Glad it's working out.

I tried to install various versions of Linux on this old laptop and none worked.

If it's an old one, try Puppy or DSL.

Win 7 works perfectly.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

^ Glad it's working out.

I tried to install various versions of Linux on this old laptop and none worked.

If it's an old one, try Puppy or DSL.

Win 7 works perfectly.

Ah. I thought you meant "old".

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

^ Glad it's working out.

I tried to install various versions of Linux on this old laptop and none worked.

If it's an old one, try Puppy or DSL.

Win 7 works perfectly.

Ah. I thought you meant "old".

It must be 7 or 8 years old.

It's a Compaq Presario 2800 (1gb P4) which I have upgraded with a 1gb stick of RAM.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

^ Glad it's working out.

I tried to install various versions of Linux on this old laptop and none worked.

If it's an old one, try Puppy or DSL.

Win 7 works perfectly.

Ah. I thought you meant "old".

It must be 7 or 8 years old.

It's a Compaq Presario 2800 (1gb P4) which I have upgraded with a 1gb stick of RAM.

Win 7 works perfectly on a Netbook, too.

But if you have something even older, DSL and Puppy have a footprint <100Mb installed, and at least one of them will run entirely from RAM.

Handy if you want a machine dedicated to one particular task, like downloading or something, and have some really old hardware laying around that you can't otherwise use.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

It's a Compaq Presario 2800 (1gb P4) which I have upgraded with a 1gb stick of RAM.

this is a nicely specs machine, wtf are you talking about, do you really think you need more for email and MS Office ?

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

It's a Compaq Presario 2800 (1gb P4) which I have upgraded with a 1gb stick of RAM.

this is a nicely specs machine, wtf are you talking about, do you really think you need more for email and MS Office ?

Where did I say I needed more? I said Win7 works fine on it.

Yep Win 7 with 2Gb works on most things. I actually disabled the pagefile on my Netbook to save the SSD and it's still fine.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Where did I say I needed more? I said Win7 works fine on it.

I am surprised you can't run Ubuntu, you must be fucking up the installation somehow

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Yep Win 7 with 2Gb works on most things. I actually disabled the pagefile on my Netbook to save the SSD and it's still fine.

a shame the interface looks like a poor clone of MacOS X otherwise I would have upgraded,

anyway Win2000 and WinXP doing all I need, who needs more ?

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Where did I say I needed more? I said Win7 works fine on it.

I am surprised you can't run Ubuntu, you must be fucking up the installation somehow

It was the old RAM chips that were causing a problem, but I've decided to stick with Win7 even though I have a new RAM chip.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Yep Win 7 with 2Gb works on most things. I actually disabled the pagefile on my Netbook to save the SSD and it's still fine.

a shame the interface looks like a poor clone of MacOS X otherwise I would have upgraded,

anyway Win2000 and WinXP doing all I need, who needs more ?

You don't.

Win 7 is too complicated for you anyway.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Win2000 and WinXP doing all I need, who needs more ?

If they work for you, that's great - good luck to you. I remember Windows millenium, 2000, XP and vista causing me nothing but problems (the O/s, not office...). Now, windows is so invasive that I just don't accept their 'right' to come in and out of my system/life at will...

Still very happy with Linux, it's easier, quicker and more user friendly than I thought it'd be.

Nice one. Quote me saying things I never said.

^ sorry Harry, it was a Papillion quote... I must've messed up the formatting, it was meant to be directed at the Belgium lad, sorry...

I had a laptop with Win7 this week-end to play with,

what a horrible interface, I thought I was back in the 90s

The Age of Steam has passed!

SEE THE LIGHT BUY A MAC!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Butterfly

I had a laptop with Win7 this week-end to play with,

what a horrible interface, I thought I was back in the 90s

I don't think you ever left them.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

I had a laptop with Win7 this week-end to play with,

what a horrible interface, I thought I was back in the 90s

I can't think why you have zero credibility...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Butterfly

I had a laptop with Win7 this week-end to play with,

what a horrible interface, I thought I was back in the 90s

I don't think you ever left them.

I quite like the computers of the 50s, they had style

today it's all small gay accessories, fucking annoying

give me a big fucking monster anyday

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Butterfly

I had a laptop with Win7 this week-end to play with,

what a horrible interface, I thought I was back in the 90s

I can't think why you have zero credibility...

MtD if you want to become a Mac homosexual, it's your choice, but don't try to convince us it's better because it's not,

you couldn't tell anyhow since your skills in computer techs are nil

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Butterfly

I had a laptop with Win7 this week-end to play with,

what a horrible interface, I thought I was back in the 90s

I can't think why you have zero credibility...

MtD if you want to become a Mac homosexual, it's your choice, but don't try to convince us it's better because it's not,

you couldn't tell anyhow since your skills in computer techs are nil

Says the man intimidated by Windows 7.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

give me a big fucking monster anyday

Keep those comments in the Ladyboy/Gay Forum please.