TL|DR I'm not trying to incite anything, I'm just stuck with a Window's 10 professional, with a lot of stuff and executables on there that I not only don't want to throw away, but may not work as well with Ubuntu, or any of that similar, not that I would know any better about anything at all here...


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Now I'm not here to be biased, but as I like the more atmosphere this forum seems to offer, I'm working diligently right now windows related products out of my control. I originally had came here for the sole saving of an old laptop I was going to work with a coworker on, Screen shared wise, to develop code with Ubuntu with him. However, then came a bunch of nonsense and complications, from the Ubuntu not detecting the Wlan card for WAPs, and I was going to, well, sort it out I supposed on an Ethernet supported line, but then came the issue of the laptop slipping off of the side of my bed, popping out the hard drive the FIRST time, with other weird issues, until it had decided to no longer read the hard drive inside at All...
Fast Forward a bit and I've no longer have the wlan card problem at least, just a shelved laptop, and a possibly disabled laptop hard drive that I don't have the cash this second to replace. Which leads me to the whole question above.
You see, I use windows, I grew up on it. I'm no form of Fanboy of it, but going to a file explorer and occasionally changing one line of text in notepad sure beats whatever complicated mess my roommate's "Shell Scripting" he does on his laptop to "Set up simple encryption protocols on start up." He says.
Not something too hard for me to get used to, but as I said, it was only the laptop which broke on me that I was willing to put the Ubuntu on, as I had already made a backup disc for, and naturally deleted everything on there without the slightest whim or care.
Now what does that leave me left with?
Well with that gone, as much as I would love to put the Ubuntu on my home desktop, it has both window's 10 professional on it, with a lot of other programs which, at least to my lack of knowledge on really everything here, Linux having a hard time trying to run executables on it's OS, at least that's what I believe what my roommate told me, I told you I'm an idiot.
The core Of what I'm trying to say is with my laptop basically unusable for Linux, and with a desktop with too much to really lose/replace with an os not guaranteed to run them, (stuff like steam games and the like, but from the raw .EXE files.) I post perhaps one of my final posts here, (not trying to sound dramatic) looking for a similar forum styled window's Question's site, that, well, isn't Microsoft's web-help-service, I guess, and more a kin to here with other people messing around with their window's OS. (I was going to say "programming and support" but really I mean in laments terms, Setting up audio configuration, exploring weird relic, but un-archived sites, messing around with command line, getting support with Exe abandon ware, where the product's own forums fail to continue to exist, etc. etc.)
I also don't wish to bug a Linux community with window's related issues, as well, this isn't a Window's forum site, simply put. So I'm not trying to instigate anything, and I've already done enough damage to some of my systems here, so any sort of forum suggestions would really be appreciated, thanks.

1. r*****rded is an antiquated term that harkens back to times (including most of the last century) with children being removed from their families, then spending life herded and hosed like pigs in barren concrete bound rooms, receiving no services, then being buried in unmarked graves. The term misuses a harsh reality, and I've had frustrating computer crusades and lived a little though and around the brunt developmental disabilites for most of my life, and can say the word does not fit this occasion, nor any one really.

I'm neither upset or offended, but am letting you know. I really mean no hostility.

2. Have you tried getting help from LQ? One thing I can think of off the bat is allowing Ubuntu to install non-open source Wi-Fi drivers and support software at installation. Someone else here could help you figure out the plethora of friendly Ubuntu Wi-Fi utilities.

If you want to set up Linux as a development environment without fighting to get it on physical hardware and have a relatively modern (~ 2010 or newer) machine, VirtualBox (virtualbox.org or any virtualization software) is an easy and straightforward way to install Linux within a simulated PC.

3. These guys have helped me on the Windows side before: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us

I haven't needed Windows help in a while. But I remember finding answers here when I did:

https://www.sevenforums.com/

Harnando, please edit out that word.

Alternative forums like:

https://www.computerhope.com/

There is a forum link in top r/h of that page.

Also

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/10


If the laptop is new new enough. Like this machine.

which was made in 2009. I ran this laptop off of persistent usb pendrive Which may be a option for you on that broken laptop. Until I bought a hard drive and slapped a OCZ 180 gig SSD ripped out of a Mac Laptop on the cheap on this 50 buck dell touchscreen netbook.

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/i...g3875/#msg3875

Edit: My grandson is autistic and runs Icewm with rox-filer desktop on a Dell E5500. With a little help from grandpa.

My couple of pennies are:

1. The fallback on any Windows was always to re-install, however they seemed to have put in checks to verify that you were installing an "authorized" copy sometimes and when stuff went end of life, it got/gets worse. So for things like NT or XP you'd have to contend with what you do have.
2. Stack Overflow seems to be a great "Read-Only" site for programming questions, unsure if Windows configuration or software installs support would be similar
3. My experience with finding and using Stack Overflow have been with using web searches for programming problems and finding the large amount of them to be addressed in that site. Therefore do some general web searching, or also be particular and zero in more on your specific questions:
   1. If your questions are common, I feel you'll find answers, new or old
   2. If your questions are rare, to non-existent, you may never find any answers anywhere and either have to avoid, move away from, or self-solve - something I've done, and people do. If you have some piece of software, as well as an OS which is no longer in service, then that is how it is. If you have a current version of Windows, then I feel searching for solutions would be valid and the only other contrary case is some very, very new problem which has as yet been undiagnosed by anyone

I also feel that it would be beneficial to edit the thread name as well as remove statements using a derogatory term, and I realize that your intent was not to be negative with that.

I apologize for my friend, I will let him know ASAP.

LQ is more Unix-like system oriented.

Win are not so much known here. Actually, none of us at LQ has ever installed windows

I use Windows to understand how it works as it the most widely used desktop OS, and thus imo has relevance..

It is of course good to use Windows. Hopefully you can get answers to your windows questions at LQ....

I don't think people should use Windows though as it sucks. And it's not for me it's for me's amigos, nevertheless thanks!

Free Will - Free Taste of OS

Amen to that!

Hi,
Speaking for yourself! We have members who choose to support MS Windows in their everyday jobs.

I keep MS Windows on machines to enable support for my clients. Really no need for MS except to help my clients.

Your statement is to broad and does not support what actually goes on here at LQ. I've read many new threads for request in aid for Microsoft products. Most are related to having a dual boot or MS interaction with a Gnu/Linux.

I am a avid Gnu/Linux users and have installed a Microsoft OS many times.

We do have die hard Microsoft haters but those too must moderate that situation.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

Alright, but I couldn't resist;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOBoKxEcVAA

Also frankly by all means, feel free to share one's opinion on what one finds which terms harmful, and which doesn't, but please don't attempt to implement this manner of self-censorship, amongst other individuals who simply speak for what they mean, not of what remark it reminds you of personally. Offense is taken, Never given. I don't need a Lorax to speak for the trees when clearly no attempt of harming trees, or the forest for that matter, has been even ideally planned out.

If such ideals were truly of great catastrophe for people, such as shouting "fire!" within a crowded, channeled hallway, by all means, Any sort of Mod's/Admin's would have promptly removed/changed the title for me, if not remove the topic all together,(they have by the means, all the right too, if it truly is Blasphemous.) After all, there is "right-think," and there is "Wrong-speak" (which is very-much-Un-good)commonplace in places of Primarily Liberal Emotionally-supportive Medias out there, which, as they promote a single ideology, are absolutely utopian in theoretical terms.

All that being said, I fully comply with @jefro 's request, as Mr.2Cent's has been bugging me personally about it for *The Past Hour* now.

Jesus Christ...