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I was wondering what is a good operating system and is it possible to overwrite windows 7 with its installation thanks
 

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Yes, it is possible to download a different OS and overwrite Windows 7, but Windows 10 is recommended. It's going to be a large download regardless.
 
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Yes, it is possible to download a different OS and overwrite Windows 7, but Windows 10 is recommended. It's going to be a large download regardless.

Okay do you have any recomendations on speeding it up because for it to be successfull I have to watch and then it does not fail and I cannot moniter it like a hawk
 

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You can try something like IDM, but other than that, not much.
Also, if you're interested in Dualbooting, you can try having Ubuntu or another Linux distro in a different partition.
 

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Personally, I'd just download the ISO itself, use Rufus to copy it to a USB, and run it from the USB after shutting it down, or mount the ISO and run it if I want to upgrade.
 

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Personally, I'd just download the ISO itself, use Rufus to copy it to a USB, and run it from the USB after shutting it down, or mount the ISO and run it if I want to upgrade.
I think the issue is the download is cutting out, so using the media creation tool to download the ISO should solve that problem.
 

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Something to point out is that you must check first if your Windows 7 machine supports Windows 10 (there's a microsoft tool for doing that).

Afterwards, your best option is to download Windows 10 ISO and create a USB booteable media with it using (as stated before) Rufus.

Then reboot your machine with the USB drive inserted and the Windows 10 installation procedure should start, then just follow the on-screen instructions.
 

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I will try it again if i click upgrade this PC will it upgrade the actual computer or should I just create a ISO file thanks
If you aren't experiencing any issues with Windows 7, then it should be okay for you to do a simple upgrade. If you are having issues with Windows 7, or you're having issues doing the upgrade, then you might want to download the ISO and do a clean install. You can create a bootable Windows 10 installation USB drive using the media creation tool and/or Rufus.
 

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If you want to go with something completely different but still close to Windows, then I have a few suggestions.
Linux Mint, Ubuntu-based Linux distro with some Windows-Like esthetics and is super easy to pick up and learn
Zorin OS, Ubuntu-based Linux distro designed to help Windows users ease over to Linux
elementary OS, Ubuntu-based Linux distro that looks and feels more like MacOS
There are also many Linux distro and other operating systems out there to try and most of them are free!
https://distrowatch.com/
 
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Three main forks in the road

1) You upgrade Windows version. From where I sit calling Windows 10 an upgrade over 7 is a bit of a dubious proposition but there is the end of support thing to consider I guess. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...nload-the-windows-10-1909-iso-from-microsoft/ for a way to get the current version.
2) You do the hackintosh thing to run OSX (Apple's home computer operating system). Personally I strongly dislike most of the way OSX works and its ecosystem but it is a big mainstream OS. It is also quite hard to set up and one really ought to have built a machine with it in mind (macs have limited hardware choices so playing to those is the best plan). https://hackintosh.com/ if you want.
3) You go for Linux. There are a million different flavours but frankly unless you have a reason to need a specialist one then go with one of the big ones https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major save for arch linux if this is your first go with it. By similar token I would not suggest playing with BSD or anything at this point. Linux has long featured stable (or indeed often been the main development platform for) versions of popular browsers, office programs, graphics programs, programming setups and more besides. You do have some limited Windows support with things like WINE (even more with virtualisation that I will cover in a little bit) and there are not so many new games coming out/working but there are some. Some odd bits of hardware might also not work but at the same time things others consider old and dead (old printers being a big one here) often work great.

If download size is a problem then a small Linux distro will get you up and running the fastest, and you can then add on things as you need them. If your Windows 7 setup still works you can usually try things out as well, either as a liveCD/liveUSB (you literally boot from those and play around, possibly even being able to save the state of things and return to it later in some distros) or with a virtual machine ( https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major ) which is in many ways like a console emulator but for PCs.

Most things will allow you to install over an existing setup, and many more (it mainly being older versions of windows that won't play nice) will allow things to coexist.
 
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Three main forks in the road

1) You upgrade Windows version. From where I sit calling Windows 10 an upgrade over 7 is a bit of a dubious proposition but there is the end of support thing to consider I guess. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...nload-the-windows-10-1909-iso-from-microsoft/ for a way to get the current version.
2) You do the hackintosh thing to run OSX (Apple's home computer operating system). Personally I strongly dislike most of the way OSX works and its ecosystem but it is a big mainstream OS. It is also quite hard to set up and one really ought to have built a machine with it in mind (macs have limited hardware choices so playing to those is the best plan). https://hackintosh.com/ if you want.
3) You go for Linux. There are a million different flavours but frankly unless you have a reason to need a specialist one then go with one of the big ones https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major save for arch linux if this is your first go with it. By similar token I would not suggest playing with BSD or anything at this point. Linux has long featured stable (or indeed often been the main development platform for) versions of popular browsers, office programs, graphics programs, programming setups and more besides. You do have some limited Windows support with things like WINE (even more with virtualisation that I will cover in a little bit) and there are not so many new games coming out/working but there are some. Some odd bits of hardware might also not work but at the same time things others consider old and dead (old printers being a big one here) often work great.

If download size is a problem then a small Linux distro will get you up and running the fastest, and you can then add on things as you need them. If your Windows 7 setup still works you can usually try things out as well, either as a liveCD/liveUSB (you literally boot from those and play around, possibly even being able to save the state of things and return to it later in some distros) or with a virtual machine ( https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major ) which is in many ways like a console emulator but for PCs.

Most things will allow you to install over an existing setup, and many more (it mainly being older versions of windows that won't play nice) will allow things to coexist.

Okay thank you as long as I can use devkitPro all will be good thanks
 

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Just FYI, if you do an upgrade install (running the setup from within Windows instead of booting to it), the free upgrade offer for Win10 surprisingly still works and will automatically activate.
Even if one performs a clean install, Windows 10 can be activated the same way using a tool like th7_mk6 v62.01.
 

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Yes, but depending on what one wants to accomplish, clean install then manually activate is easier than upgrade, auto-activate, clean install, then auto-activate.
True. And there's definitely something to be said for performing a clean install rather than upgrading. Windows tends to get a little bloated/sluggish if you use it for years without formatting or at least reinstalling.
 

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