Windows 10... Microsoft goes back to it's roots.
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These kind of inconsistencies in user interface shows how much they care about details. More to read here.
I really had better hopes with this, I thought they were going to take care of the entire interface. This had so much potential, but to me, reading only this article, shows how much they ruined it and keep going forward with a cross-match shit even in 2015.
What's so hard to design an interface for desktop and when in tablet mode keep the layout the same, but adjust for touch interfaces (more padding around elements, larger buttons etc.)
When aunt calls for computer help, good luck with that.
I agree with this. For the masses who are just running a text editor and browsing www.ashemaletube.com you can use any OS really. Windows is pretty kick ass for gaming and it's hard to beat for that, for now. I haven't used Mac much, but it has a nice feel, and I showed my wife how to ssh into her Mac at work so she didn't have to drive downtown to get a word doc. Whatever product works best for that person, is the best product. Linux for me is the King, it started off as a passion and I turned it into a career.
Linux has its drawbacks like anything else. When compared to FreeBSD, Linux reveals itself to be a chaotic mess of glued together packages and a kernel that magically work together. The Linux communities can be goldmines of information or circlejerk threads of desktop customatization and Arch/Gentoo elitism. The Ubuntu forums teeter somewhere between 'Windows Vista Forums' and 'chmod 777 is the answer to everything' .
If you are a tinkerer, hobbyist or hacker (hate this word) then Unix like systems offer a true gem for exploration and learning. It's probably not worth the effort to switch if you are already productive on your current OS and don't feel like learning Linux equivalents like vim (which is hard as fuck to master). If you are sick of the bloat and instability that comes with Windows, then give Linux a try. The learning curve can suck at times but I can find no reason that I would ever need Windows again as my main OS.
List of suggetions for those interested:
Debian with GNOME Desktop
Linux Mint with GNOME or Mate/Cinnamon or w/e it's called
For those who want to learn how it works but not shoot yourself
Arch
For those who like coning
Gentoo
Slackware
My $.02 ...
Don't update just yet. As it is, this is still a giant beta. Wait a few months, check back then.
As for all the privacy shit...
From what I gleamed on that giant pic, everythng but the stupid wifi share and the basic diagnostic info can be disabled. A pain, but doable.
Wait a month or two and there'll be scripts aplenty to kill all of them, including the wifi share and diag info with one click.
If you DON'T want to do all this:
But please stop all the panicking. Ain't nobody got time fo dat!
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Don't update just yet. As it is, this is still a giant beta. Wait a few months, check back then.
As for all the privacy shit...
From what I gleamed on that giant pic, everythng but the stupid wifi share and the basic diagnostic info can be disabled. A pain, but doable.
Wait a month or two and there'll be scripts aplenty to kill all of them, including the wifi share and diag info with one click.
If you DON'T want to do all this:
- Don't install it.
Stay with winXp / 7 / ME / 8.1 / NT / 3.1 whatever - Install Ubuntu / Mint / Debian / Redhat / CentOS / Linux of your choice...
Learn to use linux, dive into system administration, write bash scripts, compile your own kernel, wake up in your parents' basement with a neckbeard, pot belly, cheeto crumbs on your 3 week old shirt, and a crusty, beloved waifu pillow held tight. - Buy a mac.
Come out to your parents.
But please stop all the panicking. Ain't nobody got time fo dat!
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Win 8 is such hipster shit, and yes win 7 has almost never crashed and I am using it since nov 09' I guess the time it was launched till today.
win 10 looks promising(at least better than 8) but as its free it scares me, so i'll prolly get a mac and be a macfag, instead of worrying about people fapping to my porn collection somewhere 2k miles far..
I just like it how nobody mentions new Win 10 features, everybody just complains about Onedrive. Guys, VR goggles and omnipresent operating system will be a part of our lives with the Internet of things - and maybe in 10 years we will all have direct access to worldwide OS through personal headsets. Games and movies explore this idea for quite a long time already and Microsoft goes this way - omnipresent OS with VR features that you can access from any device of yours.
I do not want to think personal headsets connected to your brain are the best variant and I hope it will not go to this. But having your OS always with you, operated through your VR goggles, which act only as access point - this surely implies having a cloud storage for your files.
If they will truly stop developing new versions and will work on improving Win10 from now on, as well as adapting it to new devices once these reach the market - well you have but one choice, and it was told by Acidie and others already.
Cope with OneDrive and be a part of mainstream - or learn to use Linux/Mac OS
The fun part will be if new installations of Linux follow the same path...
p.s. Big Brother becomes a reality, some might say. I will wait for 11 months before making a decision, as Acidie suggested.
I do not want to think personal headsets connected to your brain are the best variant and I hope it will not go to this. But having your OS always with you, operated through your VR goggles, which act only as access point - this surely implies having a cloud storage for your files.
If they will truly stop developing new versions and will work on improving Win10 from now on, as well as adapting it to new devices once these reach the market - well you have but one choice, and it was told by Acidie and others already.
Cope with OneDrive and be a part of mainstream - or learn to use Linux/Mac OS
The fun part will be if new installations of Linux follow the same path...
p.s. Big Brother becomes a reality, some might say. I will wait for 11 months before making a decision, as Acidie suggested.
SEXBOX!!!!
I will keep using Win7 Ultimate and XP Pro 64 bit on my boxes for a while yet.
I can wait another couple of years to get a better idea of what/where MS is doing/going with their "Service" oriented OS. If they get the kinks out and it turns out to be decent I will not mind paying for it at that time. It'll be cheaper to me than changing over now for free and having problems during the initial roll out.
Personally, I am more concerned with finding a browser than can handle 1,200 plus open and active tabs than I am about switching OS's. LMAO
Suddenly Ass saves thread as usual. lolLOL @SEXBOX
I will keep using Win7 Ultimate and XP Pro 64 bit on my boxes for a while yet.
I can wait another couple of years to get a better idea of what/where MS is doing/going with their "Service" oriented OS. If they get the kinks out and it turns out to be decent I will not mind paying for it at that time. It'll be cheaper to me than changing over now for free and having problems during the initial roll out.
Personally, I am more concerned with finding a browser than can handle 1,200 plus open and active tabs than I am about switching OS's. LMAO
OneDrive lost some features that were in 8.1 because people were confused. Namely the ability to see your entire storage in Windows Explorer and select the files you actually wanted on your hard drive.
The new client won't let you do that in Windows 10. It's a shame, because I preferred watching my adult home movies locally, and then selecting make available online when I didn't need them at the moment. Now I mostly have to do everything through the browser, as I have more adult home movies than I do local storage space.
Fortunately, you can stream them online, so I can watch my adult home movies from anywhere.
The new client won't let you do that in Windows 10. It's a shame, because I preferred watching my adult home movies locally, and then selecting make available online when I didn't need them at the moment. Now I mostly have to do everything through the browser, as I have more adult home movies than I do local storage space.
Fortunately, you can stream them online, so I can watch my adult home movies from anywhere.
Something that they should have done years back.Wow, looks like Microsoft is catching up to various LINUX distros. Cool.
Windows 10 updates can disable pirated games and unauthorized hardware
can anyone here confirm or deny^ ?
can anyone here confirm or deny^ ?
Anybody knows the impact on the Bing search market share since Windows 10 was launched?
I would expect to see a significant boost, especially since Bing search is now embedded directly within the task bar...
I would expect to see a significant boost, especially since Bing search is now embedded directly within the task bar...
I upgraded my windows 8 to 10 at the first opportunity. I just hated 8. 10 is a much better imrovement.
I can tell you that once I upgraded to 10, my unlicensed office suite stopped working. lol
So I had to a get a new one.
So I had to a get a new one.
It froze my computer after a week of usage and couldn't repair itself. It was in a perpetual restart cycle. So I had to roll back to 8.1 and it's all good now. I'll wait till the end of the year so that they fix all the bugs.
As far as software goes everything worked great that was till it hanged itself.
As far as software goes everything worked great that was till it hanged itself.