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Please post you views , suggestions etc on this thread INSTEAD of the windows 10 one


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  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    Why does W10 spy on you and forcibly update with no regard for the users wishes ? ;)


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  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    edited 8 September 2015 at 11:58AM
    That's part of the MS business plan and probably agreed to somewhere in the unintelligible user agreement.

    Why does everything I try to do on Linux involve several google searches and copying of some pretty arcane lines into files hidden 20 levels down in the file system to even stand a chance of working?

    That TV ad about taking up spoon whittling looks more attractive every day.

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  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    I have plenty of time to decide on Win10, so am not in a hurry.

    Win8.1 has spent that last near year on the 2nd HD, only booted less that half a dozen times, so certainly not going anywhere.
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  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    Hmm..
    looks like the cunning stunt has either failed or worked spectacularly depending on intent. This Linux thread is now full of Windows 10 posts :)
  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    kwikbreaks wrote: »
    Why does everything I try to do on Linux involve several google searches and copying of some pretty arcane lines into files hidden 20 levels down in the file system to even stand a chance of working?

    Works fine for me, can have opensuse installed and fully patched (all software) on a laptop in about 30-45mins. One of my pet hates about windows is windows update; such a slow and torturous process. Do a clean install of W7 and it will be hours before it's ready.
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  • Do I need something like WINE to make a 3 mobile broadband dongle connect with Linux, and are there any distros apart from Ubuntu where it'll work 'out of the box'?
  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    kwikbreaks wrote: »
    Hmm..
    looks like the cunning stunt has either failed or worked spectacularly depending on intent. This Linux thread is now full of Windows 10 posts :)

    Perhaps it should be called "Things I hate about Windows and why I'm driven to Linux" :D
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  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    As a software engineer, I was recently on a project where the target hardware used a fork of Linux, so a lot of the work was done via a shell terminal. This was great. I really enjoyed ssh'ing in using Putty and using git and scp and all that via command line. Lovely, easy. In fact, much easier than some of the Windows development work I've done in the past.

    Then, I was moved onto it's sister project. Where all the work is done on Fedora 17 and Ubuntu. No Windows allowed, the target uses Linux and you have to develop on Linux and I couldn't !!!!ing stand it.

    I was quite happy to use linux at arms length, where I was still comfortably using Windows but using Linux via command line, but my word, Fedora 17 is a bag of !!!! and I can say that with experience. Ubuntu 14.04 isn't much better. Unity is horrific. I've had to go back to Gnome which is a bit like being back in 2003.

    It's fine until you have to use it as a day to day OS. Stick with Windows. To coin a phrase by the iDork's.... it just works.
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    I think one called things that annoy me about Linux so I'm sticking to Windows would be longer.

    If all you want to do is run a browser then I'm sure Linux is fine but whenever I try to hook up any non-mainstream hardware I hit problems that can't always be resolved.

    I think the folks that write software for it consider it a failure if it actually runs without the user having to resort to a forum to find out how to get it going.
  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    kwikbreaks wrote: »
    I think one called things that annoy me about Linux so I'm sticking to Windows would be longer.

    If all you want to do is run a browser then I'm sure Linux is fine but whenever I try to hook up any non-mainstream hardware I hit problems that can't always be resolved.

    I think the folks that write software for it consider it a failure if it actually runs without the user having to resort to a forum to find out how to get it going.
    It's not just hardware mate, trust me. Ubuntu and Fedora (at least), both have what I call 'features for the sake of features'. Things that people have clearly coined up while sitting in their bedroom thinking "what feature can i do next, oh I'll do X,Y,Z". Features that provide absolutely no benefit to 99.8% of the population and are either annoying or a hindrance in reality. A great example, the sticky edges on Ubuntu when using a dual monitor. Which bright spark came up with that idea. It means you have to push your mouse really hard to switch monitors, like you're trying to break through a virtual glass door.

    !!!! idea, poorly implemented.
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