SSE2 poll - need to find out who has a really old CPU

[Rachael]

and also because the majority of my games and apps still require it

I assume you've looked into WINE compatibility for the programs in question? It's pretty good these days in my experience.

Am using it even presently on my other machine - and WINE still has a ways to go, to be quite blunt. Pretty much have the same experience as wildweasel.

[Hellser]

I would switch to Debian (or Linux Mint Debian Edition) if I could run my Windows programs without issue. But I cannot. Like wildweasel said, it seems only Blizzard and PopCap games work. I play other games as well. Some DOS (I know there's DOSBox), some are simulators.. the list continues. WINE indeed has a long way to go. Unless Microsoft (and highly, highly unlikely) helps them out. That will be a long going process as new games come out every year and might challenge the WINE emulator.

[drfrag]

I am using Windows 8.1 Professional, which was never offered a free Win 10 upgrade.

Actually there was a free upgrade for the pro versions, i successfully upgraded from win 8 pro to 8.1 and then 10.
There was (still is?) a backdoor to upgrade to win 10 pro, this is well known and apparently microsoft doesn't care.
Hopefully you could still upgrade from:
https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/accessi ... s10upgrade

[Enjay]

My daughters laptop runs Win8.1 (not sure exactly what version) and she upgraded from 8.0 to 8.1 and was offered the upgrade to 10 while it was free but she never did it. So, although she didn't do it, it must have been possible.

I'll maybe ask and see if she wants to give that file a try. I take it that she won't have to learn German once it's installed?

[drfrag]

That link was for Graf.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessi ... s10upgrade

[Enjay]

Thank you.

So they are keeping an upgrade open for people who have support needs of some kind? I guess individuals are the only ones to take advantage of that still being open. Corporations who pay for multi-user licenses and for whom doing that on all their machines would be impractical (and potentially embarrassing) wouldn't.

I don't feel bad doing it simply because my daughter was already offered the free upgrade but failed to get it done in time (kids huh? (she's too old to be called a kid these days)). I'll try the file from that link soon. Thanks again.

[drfrag]

This one is for you:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/accessi ... s10upgrade

Microsoft was well aware that people without accessibility needs were upgrading from those links and they looked somewhere else. There was no free upgrade for Enterprise versions.

[Enjay]

Thanks again. By the look of it, the actual upgrade files may all be the same anyway; they all have the same name and the same filesize. So it's probably just the pages that are language/region specific and the file adjusts to local user settings (as per most MS installs).

[Enjay]

And just by way of a progress update, we downloaded the file, ran the install and it all went ahead like it was meant to. It took a while but Windows 8.1 updated to Window 10 version 1703. Then we searched for further updates and there were quite a few but they were all for additional programs (mostly office related stuff). All previously installed programs and files were left untouched and seem to be working just fine. In other words the install was an easy and painless process.

Thanks very much drfrag.

[drfrag]

Never mind, i just provided the links. Glad to be of help anyway.