Oaktree
Super Member
Couple months ago I spent several hours getting rid of Avast on a neighbor's laptop. Apparently there was some sort of incompatibility issue with Win 10 on one of the updates causing it to hog 90+% of system resources. Had to d/l some special removal tool that needed to be run in safe mode (which is a PITA to launch in 10) to finally get rid of it.Free Avast is not bad
Linux might have been more stable than Windows once upon a time, but we're not running Win98 or its predecessors anymore. I've had zero system crashes with XP or anything newer.Oh and everything is free. All the software, the office suite the audio, photo, and video editing all of it is free. And Linux is more stable than Windows.
I've tried to like Linux. I can't. It's clunky, and too many operations require command-line instructions. More than once I've had to Google how to do something, the only responses were to give me some long, arcane line of text to enter without any explanation of what I was doing.
Even the "free" software is kinda rinky dink IMHO. I suppose for the price...