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LINUX BACK TO WINDOWS.

Post by dkbledsoe » Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:22 pm

I have found out you cant do alot with LINUX. therefore, I would like to go back to windows, but I dont have a disk. Any suggestions helpful.

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Re: LINUX BACK TO WINDOWS.

Post by wayne128 » Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:27 pm

Just download Win7 iso from MS website or MS appointed agent that distribute Win7 iso over internet.
Win8, Win8.1 also have iso .

Re: LINUX BACK TO WINDOWS.

Post by PeterG » Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:03 pm

dkbledsoe wrote: I have found out you cant do alot with LINUX. therefore, I would like to go back to windows, but I dont have a disk. Any suggestions helpful.

Re: LINUX BACK TO WINDOWS.

Post by dkbledsoe » Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:59 pm

Because every time I want to do something, I have to download something, then a bunch of files come up and I dont know what to do with them. very frustrated with Linux

Re: LINUX BACK TO WINDOWS.

Post by dkbledsoe » Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:02 pm

Re: LINUX BACK TO WINDOWS.

Post by MachineDojo » Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:31 pm

Sorry to hear about your problems, the Linux community is very helpful if you ask about these various issues. I find the learning curve to be very fun, and helps you to understand why things work the way they do which lends to having more respect for the various software out there including Windows.

But if you want to go back to Windows and have a legitimate Windows key(probably on a sticker on your computer), you’ll just need to know that version of windows the key is for such as Windows 7 Home/Premium/Pro. etc. also, I think it matters whether it is an OEM or retail copy. Generally if you have the sticker on your computer it’s probably an OEM copy. You’ll then just need to download that version and copy it to a CD. I would keep a live CD/USB of Linux handy though, just in case you run into problems during the install(such as getting the wrong copy of Windows) if you don’t have a secondary computer. This way you can load up the live CD and figure out the problem.

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How do I get back to Windows when Linux hard drive fails?

I have Windows on one hard drive and Ubuntu on another. Last time I was in Windows and I chose to shut down the computer. It got stuck on «Exiting Windows». I could tell because it took like forever to shut down (10 minutes at least), and the circle (mouse pointer) was not spinning. So I shut it off by press and holding the power button. Now when I power on, POST takes longer time than usual but I think it passas, or maybe it skips? Then it gets stuck after «Verifying DMI Pool Data». Update The hard drive with Ubuntu has been on the decline for some time, I think it has finally failed. But the hard drive with Windows is healthy, it should be working. Why can’t I boot to Windows? Is this because the bootloader is stored on the failing disk? What should I do? Sometimes I get this:

Verifying DMI Pool Data. Boot from CD/DVD : 

That’s the normal boot, because my first boot device is the ODD. It then jumps to HDD if no CD/DVD is present. Now it gives me this:

Verifying DMI Pool Data. Boot from CD/DVD : error: no such device: a00606f0-dd69-4a57-9a06-343aab87bccb. grub rescue> 

It seems that when the failed hard drive is properly identified on startup (POST), then it boots normally. I get to the Grub boot menu and I can pick either Ubuntu or Windows. Although, sometimes it doesn’t help even if the hard drive is identified. In that case, powering off and then powering on again usually solves the glitch and I am able to boot. But when the failed hard drive is not properly identified, then it always gets stuck and the Grub rescue prompt shows up. This is also true when the failed hard drive is not present, i.e. when I disconnect it from the motherboard. The «no such device» error above refers to the missing or unidentified hard drive. Can someone please tell me why booting Windows has to depend on a working Linux system? I primarily use Windows and it’s installed on a completely different hard drive. If Windows is on HDD1, and Linux is on HDD2, and then HDD2 fails like it did here in my case, then why shouldn’t I be able to boot from HDD1 with Windows? As I understand this is because Grub is installed on HDD1. So it removed the Windows bootloader? Shouldn’t Grub be installed on the same hard drive as Linux, i.e. on HDD2? So that if HDD2 with Linux dies, then everything belonging to it also dies, but I can still use another hard drive with another bootloader?

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«Go back to Windows.» The advice that my mentor gave me in Linux and that I repeat to disgruntled users

We were in the first decade of this century. Tired of how slow Windows was and its problems, and after half a year working more in an Ubuntu virtual machine than in native Windows, I formatted and left it with the Canonical system. Later we started to play making music, and I didn’t understand many things. Then I would think about it and complain with comments like «it’s because in Windows I do. «, and he, tired, would reply «Go back to Windows».

Some months ago i wrote an article detailing my decision to switch to Linux and why I stick with it. for my use , and to summarize, everything is easier and works better, with more reliability. But week in, week out, here at LXA and in other blogs in our network they write us comments about how complicated it is to do things in Linux, that what works in one distro does not work in another, that. well, well. Go back to Windows or don’t exit it.

Go back to Windows is not bad advice

Es The best for those who want to stay in the comfort zone and not try new things. But I would also tell anyone who messes with Linux not to even think about switching to macOS. It is something that I also did, and things are not the same as in Windows either. What do you want to use something like acestream? get off the docker and run it. That you don’t know what «docker» is or how to make it work? You have spent thousands of euros or your current currency to not know how to move around the interface or how to do things in a system other than the one you master.

True is that MacOS It is not designed for people as «geeky» as Linux users. But that of having to activate the possibility of installing programs from outside your Mac App Store, and that the installation of these programs is so simple that if you don’t know how to do it you can go crazy, it is also something that you have to learn.

Linux is not for everyone

Linux is for him type of user who is not concerned with learning new stuff. It is for those who want to have everything as they like, not as they are imposed. It is for those who want to be able to use a computer several years after it is no longer supported. If someone isn’t comfortable with a kernel-based distro, they can try another, and if they can’t find one… go back to Windows, really. Or not.

If the problem is that what works in one distro doesn’t work in another, why not just stick with the one that works for you? You can also stay in Ubuntu, or better in something based on it, and a very high percentage of the information that you will find on the Internet will solve your doubts. But first of all, do your tests in VirtualBox.

A virtual machine can be your best friend

It was for me, and it still is today. With 2TB of storage, 1TB on the main drive, I have a host system and four Virtual machines in GNOME Boxes. One of them has Windows 11, and there I check that some things work, like when I play to be a programmer and I want to see if some of Python also works in the windows system. There are also tests that I want to do quickly, the first information I find is for Windows and I test it on that virtual machine.

And this also applies to those who have never used Linux and are thinking of making the «switch» (those who switch are known by the English word «switcher»). Before changing operating systems and start complaining by any means, it is worth doing as many tests as possible in VirtualBox. Or in a live-session. O installing a complete system on a USB. Will it be for options?

Nor do I get it out of my head that many of those who comment on these things could do so without having tested enough, or that they have never been Linux users and are «trolls». Whatever it is, stay in what makes you happy and allows you to be productive. And if with all that said you miss the windows. go back to Windows.

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