Poor Windows performance Annoying issues during use Unpleasant software experience
Poor Windows performance Annoying issues during use Unpleasant software experience
certain viruses and malware in windows penetrate deeply into the system... making it impossible to remove their files, which likely occurred in your situation. Windows users typically boot into a boot disk, similar to a Linux disk, and then delete the infected files.
I faced a really unpleasant Linux experience recently... Initially, after running the installation disk on the USB drive, the install completed but grub failed to set up—just a failure message without any errors. After some research online, I discovered I needed an internet connection for grub to work. Once connected, plugging in my Wi-Fi adapter (8192cu) took about three minutes and kept dropping. It turned out the latest kernel didn’t support my chipset properly, so I had to reboot the installation disk again and install Realtek drivers. Still no improvement! It seems the developers must have made a mistake with the kernel. Eventually, I searched for another Wi-Fi adapter and found an old BT unit from around ten years ago—boom, it worked perfectly! So I finally got Linux installed (thanks!). Chapter Two covered installing original Wi-Fi drivers; Chapter Three involved a major crash after graphics drivers were added; Chapter Four was just repeating the same steps twice. Windows handled everything fine, but this Linux mess took an unreasonable amount of time and effort.
Which distribution were you setting up? It seems like elementaryOS. The kernel gets maintained by users and developers for specific devices, with varying levels of support. Some communities offer better assistance than others. If you're using an Ubuntu-based system, that's likely the issue. Ubuntu relies on older kernels and package files, while LTS versions use 3.19, the latest is 4.1.10, stable at 4.2.3, and mainline at 4.3. This mismatch explains why things don't function properly on *buntu*. Additionally, a kernel panic appears to be a major problem here—it's quite unusual.
It's not a deep directory, it's located in ProgramFiles/Something.
Hey, I see what you mean. Let me know if you need anything else.
It was the Ubuntu Mate LTS version. Interestingly, I haven’t faced any problems using Elementary—it’s the operating system my laptop uses, and I’ve never installed drivers for it since it doesn’t require them. The 3.19 kernel is still current, released in February of this year. I’m not criticizing Linux; it’s my everyday OS, but I find Windows much more straightforward to manage. I’m leaning toward installing Elementary on my desktop, though I’m hesitant about its reliability.
You can change file permissions from the properties of that file (or set of files), and folders. Correct, because no one is truly admin. The reason for the switch is as mentioned people deleted system files, a problem that Windows OS had for many many many years. Microsoft tried to block it, but people found ways around. Like if you have someone wanted to delete a system file in Linux and goes as root, or worst, ONLY uses root account. Now, Windows has the User Account protection, which is very solid, and as of yet not been compromised in modern version of Windows to my knowledge without the system previously compromised (gave true admin privileges to the process). The majority of the time, all these adware, virus, and so on, it is because the user not only ran say image.jpg.exe, but Windows goes "Hey his PROGRAM wants to access your system files and do stuff inside, do you want to allow it?", and they go "Fuck yea, I don't care, I want to see that image! CLICK! Oh crap there was no image.. and I actually do care. My stufff!!!!!". If Windows is fully updated, safe web surfing practices are used, and you don't run and allow admin privileges anything you see, then you don't have problems. In you are in a safe and secure environment. You guys (linux community guys), as very tech savvy, you know what you do on the system. Many here don't. Imagine a process gets root privileges and hacks up Linux based OS, to block user root privileges. The best way to remove a malware, virus, adware, is to go in safe mode. Windows safe mode only loads the core drivers. You have no networking, no graphics card drivers, no nothing. It doesn't run any startup programs of any kind. So the infection can't execute and do it's thing. Usually, they use a 2 or 3 processes that monitors each other to redo what you have done, to keep itself alive. So even if you did your command, it would undo what you did. When a system is compromised, the system is compromised. Like I said, if you give root privilege under Linux to a malware, it has carte blanch in doing anything it feels like. That is why no one should be running as a root. In some what technically, no one should be running as Admin. Already this half admin thing, was HUGELY controversial, and was one of the key features that made Vista fail in term of adoption rate. People didn't get why they were not full admin. They want full admin. Even if Microsoft made it possible to be full admin, EVERYONE would be switching to it. Imagine if everyone in the Linux ecosystem switch to root. Why? Doesn't matter, they want full access. There isn't logic to it, we don't like being restricted. 3 years later, people got used to it. Again, unless you do something stupid, it is not a problem. Also, I am surprised you didn't try and bring the system back in time with System restore point, and broke you head with all this. Bringing the system back in time is safer and better (although some infections can corrupt the recovery section in the HDD which isn't accessible, blocking this, but many time its not touched). Trying to remove the infection, sure removes it, but any system files that have been modified, aren't fixed, and opened the system to more security holes. Even if you used an Anti-virus program (say that would have worked), it doesn't fix modified system files.