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Call me stupid but I like windows 10. It is more like linux now that it has workspaces. It starts up fast and shuts down the same. It seems to be a bit buggy but it is early days.
I was using it quite a lot recently but I went back to an old machine using linux lite.
Anyone else like win 10?
I know that it wants to take everything in your documents etc and put in onto one drive but I have nothing to hide.
My wife works on the internet doing customer service but her computer has big problems when windows does updates. Luckily the main company in Houston is understanding.

I like windows 10. I upgraded from 7 but got used to it very quickly (had watched hours of videos beforehand so I knew how it worked). It's very nice, and I'm glad it was free. I like checking out apps and giving them feedback. I can't get Cortana working for some reason, but it ends there in what problems I've had.

I am a bit confused about UEFI. I can understand the idea. If I have a modern machine it is UEFI. If I have an old computer it is EFI. I partitioned a drive to GPT and tried to install some modern software and it overwrote my MBR. I ended up with a GPT error so that I couldn't see all my old photos etc on the drive.
If a computer is UEFI what other operating systems can I put on it?

I do not know what those are. You would be better asking in the forum about the computers. This subforum not the general autism. They are smarter about computers here I think:

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moved from GAD to Computers, Math, Science, and Technology

UEFI is actually a replacement for BIOS. It's the basic firmware (software that's built right into the hardware) that enables your computer to access attached hardware and boot into an operating system.

You can run any modern operating system on a computer that has UEFI. In fact I think you might have to go back to Windows 98 / ME to find an OS that wouldn't run on UEFI.

Where GPT comes into play - on Windows systems, you can only boot from a GPT partitioned drive if the computer has UEFI. If it still has BIOS, you can only boot Windows from a MBR partitioned drive. You can boot Linux from a GPT partitioned drive even on an older BIOS computer, though.

I don't believe it's possible to have both GPT and MBR partitions on the same drive. And any time you make changes to drive partitioning you risk losing data.

The problems with Windows 10 are that it's a OS spying on his users and having the potential to deactivate "pirated" softwares (Or what is defined as "pirated" by Microsoft.) and to prevent non-approved hardwares to work with the OS.

That is where I had my problem. The drive had GPT but I was putting a slackware dos4windows grub onto it when it overwrote the gpt partition table. The drive appeared to be totally balank afterwards.

For me Windows 10 has just been a modern looking windows 7, which is not a bad thing.