windows 10
Quote from: ReedRichards Yes. As things stand at present, once you have upgraded to Windows 10 you can alternate between Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 as often as you wish and indefinitely. But the path back to Windows 8.1 becomes more difficult after 30 days.
Cheers for that,as long as all my progs don,t get lost in doing so.
Quote from: jockwav as long as all my progs don,t get lost in doing so.
That very much depends on how you do it, particularly reverting to Windows 8.1
Oh dear,well i only know one way & that is to do the restore back i think. 
I find Windows to be so easy (not).
Quote from: ReedRichards
Quote from: jockwav .. restore back i think.
Well that method is limited to the first 30 days after your last upgrade and there are various things you can do unwittingly that will prevent it from running.
The best option, if you have the means of doing it, is to create an 'image' of your Windows 8.1 set-up and revert back to that as necessary.
Not sure if i can do that i have been on win 10 for about a week,so not sure how to create an image of win 8.1 now.
Stuck between a rock blah blah 
I don't bother doing clean installs of Linux as they are unnecessary.
I currently rely on a rolling upgrade - so I'm never faced with some pointless total redesign of the desktop.
Linux just works without any complicated interfaces.
I don't need to curse Linux but I would be pretty upset about Windows since I'd have paid good money for it.
I could cope with the relatively successful Windows XP, partly cope with W7 but the rest are rubbish.
I would do a clean install of Linux if I had a major disk crash.
I currently rely on a rolling upgrade - so I'm never faced with some pointless total redesign of the desktop.
Linux just works without any complicated interfaces.
I don't need to curse Linux but I would be pretty upset about Windows since I'd have paid good money for it.
I could cope with the relatively successful Windows XP, partly cope with W7 but the rest are rubbish.
I would do a clean install of Linux if I had a major disk crash.
As i am still thinking about going back to win 8.1 i thought i need to back up to my spare 1TB usb drive that has been sitting in the drawer for ages.
Plugged it into the wall socket & connected the usb to the pc,but it does not show up no matter what i try.
I had the drive up to my ear the next time i tried to re power it but it is just making a weird whirring noise & won,t boot up,so i think it is goosed.
What i have done is on my homegroup i made a folder on my wife,s pc & backed up a lot of files & programs in it,will this work ok if i need them?.
Plugged it into the wall socket & connected the usb to the pc,but it does not show up no matter what i try.
I had the drive up to my ear the next time i tried to re power it but it is just making a weird whirring noise & won,t boot up,so i think it is goosed.
What i have done is on my homegroup i made a folder on my wife,s pc & backed up a lot of files & programs in it,will this work ok if i need them?.
Quote from: ReedRichards
Quote from: vilefox I currently rely on a rolling upgrade - so I'm never faced with some pointless total redesign of the desktop.
Funny, Windows 10 uses rolling upgrades and has been much criticised for that. And it's slated to continue until 2025. Isn't that just what you're looking for?
a) There is no termination date such as 2025.
b) I get asked if I want to download upgrade(s) and a brief meaningful description is supplied.
c) I could switch off rolling upgrades & stick to a ultra-stable distribution if I wanted to.