08-02-2024, 02:43 PM
(08-02-2024, 01:06 PM)ppppenguin Wrote: I've not installed W10 and don't ever want to. You more or less have to create a Microsoft account just to make it work at all. (There are ways round this but it's yet more work).Win10 home is tricky. With Win10 pro just click on joining a domain and then create the local account at install time.
The Net use command on Win10 allows creation of users if the GUI option has been removed.
Then there is a setting to turn off the nagging to create an MS online account. Getting rid of junk and adverts takes a while.
However Linux has been getting better since 1999 and Windows NT GUI & user settings worse since Server 2003. So Linux surpassed Windows about 2007 and Libre Office better than MS Office for most users since about version 5.x. I was using Thunderbird, Filezilla, PuTTY, VLC, Audacity, VNC, Firefox, The GIMP, Libre Office, Calibre and others that are on Linux on XP and Win 7 before I completely switched in January 2017 by wiping Win7 OS off the disk. Switched from Windows to Linux server completely about 2006.
I solved network security issue of older Windows clients by having a 16G USB stick on a spare router configured as a switch and WiFi point only. It's setup to allow Samba1/Lanmanager/earlier insecure NT login and the Linux boxes with file shares are only the secure Samba (Win7 with SP and later) but can also connect to the share on the ex-router's USB port.
What's really tricky is getting Win98 running on later HW and adding USB storage support. I have one older tower PC that had Win7 upgraded to 10 in an office and then dumped to me that has Win98SE with 3rd party patches for a real DOS boot and Win9x. Actual 16 bit Win 3.1 will run in DOSbox on Linux or Android, but not 3.11 or WFWG 3.11 with all the 32 bit extensions, which is practically Win95 without Explorer and DirectX (original Win95 had no USB!) .
