# Your humble opinions, please, on learning Ubuntu **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-humble-opinions-please-on-learning-ubuntu/836040 "2019-06-25T16:14:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-humble-opinions-please-on-learning-ubuntu/836040/41 "2019-06-28T22:51:59Z")
> [@Lare](#): > > As you know, support for that is nearing termination very soon and I need something to fall back to. Finances, while not critical, really don’t support buying new machines (Apple or PC) and, besides, all our current machines are still working fine for what we need them to do. I’m possibly misunderstanding your situation, but it is still possible to do a free upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 using legit Microsoft tools. This method works as of about two weeks ago when I last did it. > **[Can you still get a Windows 10 upgrade for free?](https://www.zdnet.com/article/can-you-still-get-a-windows-10-upgrade-for-free/)** > > Microsoft's much-hyped free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ended years ago, but it took more than seven years before the company finally updated its activation servers. Here's what upgraders can expect now. Mods: the method uses the official MS Media Creation Tool and its automated interaction with Microsoft’s activation servers, so it isn’t a dodgy hack or anything. I guess that patching activation servers isn’t something that is done lightly, so it still works two years after the original Windows Update upgrade path went away. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-humble-opinions-please-on-learning-ubuntu/836040/42 "2019-06-30T18:58:08Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Well, there are many people who appease their muscle memory by putting _alias dir=‘ls -l’_ into their ~/.bash\_profile > > Muscle memory is indeed a force to be reckoned with, and Linux provides a thousand ways to make that work for you instead of against you. Brilliant! Thank you, although maybe reinforcing a bad habit isn’t thr best way to go? 🙂 > [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > I’m possibly misunderstanding your situation, but it is still possible to do a free upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10 using legit Microsoft tools. Yes, thank you, but I really want to get away from the Windows OS and all its patches, inconvenient update protocols, tracking, etc. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-humble-opinions-please-on-learning-ubuntu/836040/43 "2019-06-30T20:05:42Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Well, there are many people who appease their muscle memory by putting _alias dir=‘ls -l’_ into their ~/.bash\_profile I do this except it’s in my .tcshrc. (My first Unix shell was csh on a box running PDP-11 firmware emulation.) Another classic one is “cls” for “clear”. But the oldest alias is “k/n” for “exit”. That was the shortcut for “kill /now” on TOPS-10. I also used to do things under MS-DOS going the other way. E.g., I’d binedit the Doskey command so that the keys for moving on the command line mirrored csh and such. (I just did a Google for “kill /now” TOPS. Based on the results I think I just made another list.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-humble-opinions-please-on-learning-ubuntu/836040.md?page=2)