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Many older people play WoW for the social side of the game, not for the actual game action. They form guilds with voice chat, organise raffles and events, it's very positive for them.
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As a follower of Trog, I just like to kill things. Lots of things. Never mind magic - I want to just plain chop them up (kills are often edible, too!).
Social interaction? Just bait to bring food closer . . .
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Whatever makes you happy. For her though a nice comfy headset to chat with her online friends would be more important.
I once stumbled by mistake into such a guild. Left after a couple of weeks, but they were really nice.
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Download W10 installation image took you 6 hours? Sounds impossible - the size of a full ISO is less then 4GB...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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No, the game World of Warcraft - the download took 6 hours.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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 I need to read things more carefully...
However 40GB in six hours is not that impossible, if you are on a slower line... With 20Mbps it is over 4 hours (ADSL2+ has 24Mbps)...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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I'd love to be able to do 40GB in 6 hours. This is closer to a full weekend for me.
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WoW download is around 40GB, judging from t'interwebs: How big is the Download? - World of Warcraft Forums[^]
Then it expands to 80~90 GB when installed.
So if her / your connection is slowish, or the WoW server she downloads from is busy ... that's a "significant" download size, whatever way you look at it. My internet is 40Mb/sec, so that's ~4MBps, which would be 166 minutes if the connection is clear of other users. It wouldn't take much to push that D/L over 5 or 6 hours during "busy periods".
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The download size last night was 58GB.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's a BIG download! Even VS is smaller ... just 
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That is one comparison he'll understand.
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Well, VS2017 is a 25GB download.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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And when you select all the add-ons. 
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Elder Scrolls Online is 98 GB of download.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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What is that big ? Animations ? Too bad that we have internet and high speed connections, this removes all need for developers to perform optimization. I wish they had to install it personnaly via floppy once as a validation test for the complete software 
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360K floppies, of course. All 161,112 of them. That's a stack 805.56 feet or 1/4 kilometre tall, and that's a big box: 3 full-to-the-brim shipping containers, plus the glove box of the truck shifting them.
General Failure will chime in on disk number 161,109 - and serves the bugger right!
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OriginalGriff wrote: General Failure will chime in on disk number 161,109 - and serves the bugger right!
And that's after swapping out floppy drives several hundred times...
Software Zen: delete this;
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I see you've played Disky-Spoony before!
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We do most of our backups to DVD on one of our servers. For a long time I got used to replacing the DVD drive after burning 200-250 discs, or roughly every four months or so. A belt would break and that would be the end of the drive. Marcia, one of our technicians, thought that was horribly wasteful. She disassembled a drive and figured out that the belt was the same size as the rubber bands you could buy for little girls' hair. She started refurbishing DVD drives, and I now have a small stockpile of them. Ironically, the last drive she fixed for me is still in the server. It has probably burned over 1,000 discs in the last two years.
Thanks, Marcia.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You downloaded the wrong game: World Of Waiting 
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I am an avid player of WoW. Yeah, it should not take 6 hours to download and install (laptop or not).
Windows 10 works just fine for me both personally and professionally, so I can't agree with you there.
Just do a clean reformat of the laptop OS. Loading only what she needs, of course. That is what I do on my gaming and dev machines and it works fine.
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Well, I can't because she didn't want to fork out $180 for a stand-along copy of Win10 (and I don't blame her).
What I REALLY wanted to do was install Linux and whatever was required to run WoW on that, but she wasn't interested in a totally free OS either.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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She doesn't want free, doesn't want to pay. How about a laptop without an OS?
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FWIW, the previous versions of WoW ran on Linux; haven't played since the latest expansion though.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: She doesn't want free, doesn't want to pay
Ahrrr.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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She's retired and on a fixed income. I had to buy her a new laptop because she simply can't afford it. On the other hand, she refuses to recognize that Linux is her best solution regarding monetary outlay.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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