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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 1:19 am
by Malcolm
M! S! D! N! Fuck you, commoners.
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:57 am
by TheCatt
That makes sense.
Don't back down on auto-updates for the plebes. Those people are fucking idiots.
Not sarcasm.
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:50 am
by Leisher
TheCatt wrote:
That makes sense.
Don't back down on auto-updates for the plebes. Those people are fucking idiots.
Not sarcasm.
Honestly? You're 100% right.
Most people are too stupid/lazy to download updates, and it makes fighting viruses and malware a bitch. Just about every privately owned PC someone hands me to work on hasn't been updated since it was purchased or I worked on it previously. Most people don't do backups, but we trust them to update their PCs?
It makes sense for Microsoft to try and maintain the same version of an OS throughout the world.
But...they're going to get complaints from the majority of the business world who aren't running Enterprise versions of their software. They need to be able to stop these updates as well.
I think they need to just bite the bullet and allow Pro versions and up be able to do updates as normal. Continue to force them to Home users.
They also need to release update notes. If fucking game developers can do it, Microsoft can and should.
Oh, and for all you "I'm sticking with 7 folks", the anti-privacy features from 10 are either already there on your OS or on their way.
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:00 am
by TPRJones
If I wanted a computer that would obfuscate what it is doing and not let me work with it the way I want to, I'd get a fucking Mac.
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:19 am
by Malcolm
Oh, and for all you "I'm sticking with 7 folks", the anti-privacy features from 10 are either already there on your OS or on their way.
It's looking more and more like a linux VM kind of future.
If I wanted a computer that would obfuscate what it is doing and not let me work with it the way I want to, I'd get a fucking Mac.
That's a bit of a stretch. I wouldn't call a Mac a computer.
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:45 am
by TPRJones
Fair enough. I wouldn't call Windows 10 an operating system.
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:04 pm
by GORDON
Saying they purposely fucked their past OS isn't really a good way to sell the new OS.
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 1:58 pm
by GORDON
Win 7 and 8 is downloading Win10 even if you don't tell it to, because it is tied to Windows update settings.
Microsoft is calling this a feature, not a bug.
http://www.pcgamer.com/windows....mission
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 2:01 pm
by Malcolm
Time to brush up on my linux admin skills.
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 2:06 pm
by GORDON
Until recently I had Windows update automatically applying patches to my Win7 machines (other than mine, I like exercising more control on my personal machine), because I thought when something was labelled "Critical Update" it was a security patch or a bug fix. Now I find out it is for data mining and installing Windows 10 nag alerts.
Microsoft has managed to hit a new low, in my perception of them.
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 2:54 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:Until recently I had Windows update automatically applying patches to my Win7 machines (other than mine, I like exercising more control on my personal machine), because I thought when something was labelled "Critical Update" it was a security patch or a bug fix. Now I find out it is for data mining and installing Windows 10 nag alerts.
Microsoft has managed to hit a new low, in my perception of them.
How about lower?
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 2:56 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:GORDON wrote:Until recently I had Windows update automatically applying patches to my Win7 machines (other than mine, I like exercising more control on my personal machine), because I thought when something was labelled "Critical Update" it was a security patch or a bug fix. Now I find out it is for data mining and installing Windows 10 nag alerts.
Microsoft has managed to hit a new low, in my perception of them.
How about lower?
Scooped.
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 3:10 pm
by TheCatt
Weird. Those posts didn't show up when I clicked in.
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 7:06 pm
by GORDON
This guy says the Win10 upgrade is being forced on some users.
https://thestack.com/world....e-users
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:29 pm
by GORDON
Windows 10 Start Menu "now being used to display ads."
http://tech.slashdot.org/story....lay-ads
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:43 pm
by Malcolm
Some linux flavours should take out ad space. Swear to god, how hard is it for open source hippies to make a not shitty OS a normal person can use?
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:51 pm
by GORDON
I'd drop Microsoft in a second if I, you know, didn't want to run popular programs a lot on my computer.
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:05 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:I'd drop Microsoft in a second if I, you know, didn't want to run popular programs a lot on my computer.
Steam hit 3.7K games last year. Let's figure they're hitting 5K this year because that'll about match growth from last year. There are about 1.3K games with Linux support, but among them are DotA 2 and CS:GO. Those two games comprise a huge majority of users on steam right now as I type this. As in "almost 500K." Even if linux is only getting 20% of the total titles, as long as they hit the big ones, they've got a selling point for gamers -- a demographic that is only growing.
On the flip side, every windows manager I've seen for *nix fucking sucks, blows, and swallows. An marketable OS isn't a thing that's getting tossed together by the open source community any time soon. The UI looks clunky, alien, bulky, unwieldy, and a host of other adjectives that aren't positive.
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:42 pm
by TPRJones
Mint isn't too bad. But it's objectively not good enough yet.
Still, it's better than W10.
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:52 am
by GORDON
We've been dealing with Microsoft dominance of the OS market for over 20 years now, and with Win10 they are really starting to take advantage of it. I'd like to see a lawsuit and real change, but I don't know what they'd get sued over.