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<blockquote data-quote="Howard1975" data-source="post: 885231" data-attributes="member: 87758"><p>Hello everyone, I'm a new member here at this forum But I'm not new with computers. I have been using computers since the late 1980s and early 1990's, starting with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, then later Win95, 98, Win2K, XP, Vista, 7 and now Windows 10. And I started using Linux in the late 1990's. </p><p></p><p> I got my first computer in 1992, when I was in high school. It was a Tandy 1000 SX computer (Tandy owned Radio Shack in those years), the computer was made around 1986. It was powered by the Intel 8088 running at both 4.77 Mhz and 7.16 Mhz, came with MS-DOS 3.22, and it had 2 floppies (both 5.25 and 3.5), but no hard drive. It was slow, loading everything from floppy, but I loved that computer. Next I had a 386 PC with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. It was an amazing performance increase, compared to the Tandy 1000 SX.</p><p></p><p>Since my first computer in 1992 (the Tandy), I have owned computers equipped with the Intel 286, 386, 486, Intel Pentium 1, AMD K6-2, AMD Duron, Intel Pentium 4, Intel Atom, Core 2 Duo, Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron, AMD Phenom X3, Intel Core i5, etc. And some other CPU's, including from Cyrix, VIA and other brands.</p><p></p><p>I started building computers in 1997, and I usually like to build my own computers. But I currently use a Dell Optiplex 9020 MT, as my main computer. I dual boot Windows 10 and Linux on it.</p><p></p><p>Like I said earlier, I also use the Linux operating system, since the late 1990's. I have used many Linux distros, starting with Mandrake, SuSE and RedHat. Now I normally use Debian or Debian based, Ubuntu based (usually Xubuntu or Kubuntu), Linux Mint, and Slackware Linux.</p><p></p><p>I'll be building a new computer for my father, he is 78 years old, and wants a more powerful computer for gaming. I'll be building him a AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, MSI B450 motherboard, AMD Radeon RX 570 GPU, a 512 GB M.2 NVME SSD drive, 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, and probably Kubuntu 20.04 Linux. And set him up with Steam and Lutris, so he can play some Windows games on Linux. </p><p></p><p>I have been using Microsoft Windows, starting with Windows 3.11 and going all the way to Windows 10. Currently using Windows 10 Pro, 1909 version, and will upgrade to the 2004 May update, probably a few weeks after it is officially released. </p><p></p><p>Howard</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Howard1975, post: 885231, member: 87758"] Hello everyone, I'm a new member here at this forum But I'm not new with computers. I have been using computers since the late 1980s and early 1990's, starting with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, then later Win95, 98, Win2K, XP, Vista, 7 and now Windows 10. And I started using Linux in the late 1990's. I got my first computer in 1992, when I was in high school. It was a Tandy 1000 SX computer (Tandy owned Radio Shack in those years), the computer was made around 1986. It was powered by the Intel 8088 running at both 4.77 Mhz and 7.16 Mhz, came with MS-DOS 3.22, and it had 2 floppies (both 5.25 and 3.5), but no hard drive. It was slow, loading everything from floppy, but I loved that computer. Next I had a 386 PC with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. It was an amazing performance increase, compared to the Tandy 1000 SX. Since my first computer in 1992 (the Tandy), I have owned computers equipped with the Intel 286, 386, 486, Intel Pentium 1, AMD K6-2, AMD Duron, Intel Pentium 4, Intel Atom, Core 2 Duo, Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron, AMD Phenom X3, Intel Core i5, etc. And some other CPU's, including from Cyrix, VIA and other brands. I started building computers in 1997, and I usually like to build my own computers. But I currently use a Dell Optiplex 9020 MT, as my main computer. I dual boot Windows 10 and Linux on it. Like I said earlier, I also use the Linux operating system, since the late 1990's. I have used many Linux distros, starting with Mandrake, SuSE and RedHat. Now I normally use Debian or Debian based, Ubuntu based (usually Xubuntu or Kubuntu), Linux Mint, and Slackware Linux. I'll be building a new computer for my father, he is 78 years old, and wants a more powerful computer for gaming. I'll be building him a AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, MSI B450 motherboard, AMD Radeon RX 570 GPU, a 512 GB M.2 NVME SSD drive, 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, and probably Kubuntu 20.04 Linux. And set him up with Steam and Lutris, so he can play some Windows games on Linux. I have been using Microsoft Windows, starting with Windows 3.11 and going all the way to Windows 10. Currently using Windows 10 Pro, 1909 version, and will upgrade to the 2004 May update, probably a few weeks after it is officially released. Howard [/QUOTE]
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