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If your using Windows 10 Professional or above, you can change the Local Group Policy to prompt you for both downloading and installing updates. For lower versions (like "Home"), there is a way to tell it that your connection is "Metered" and then updated won't be downloaded automatically; but that's not an official method to prevent updates.
For public information: Wired connections cannot be set as "metered". Only wireless ones.
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"The year of the Linux desktop" already happened, but in the meantime desktop got so small that you can put it in your pocket. It never would have been happened without commercialization of the Linux desktop (Android), so your kit car analogy holds.
Good luck running desktop GNU/Linux stuff properly on Android/Linux. The set of APIs exposed to the NDK is so constrained that Google can replace the Linux kernel with something else and only OEMs writing drivers will notice.
Can I have Paint.NET on Linux yet?
I've been spending some time putting together a framework for .NET Core API/platform development. The main problem with it currently is the lack of compatible libraries - I've had issues with DI containers, cloud provider libraries, AOP frameworks and more. Not to mention EF Core is still way off in terms of production viability. ASP.NET Core is very tasty as a plus.. and there's always Mono to fill the gap in terms…
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> Ha, right here is why "the year of the Linux desktop" will never happen. I've been using Linux desktops almost exclusively for more than a decade. Both my PC laptops have UEFI enabled and both installed Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora) off a USB stick with no tweaking, so, it may be too complex for you, but most developers I know don't share the same personal issues.
I believe you and your parent are talking about different categories of users. >> but it's never going to be mainstream
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You could use MySQL? It has full EF7 support AFAIK.
After years MySQL still not implemented async for their .NET driver, only slow cheap wrappers. However, PostgreSQL has full async support in their free .NET driver...
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Paint.Net is good, indeed. Let Krita be your new friend. https://krita.org/en/
Would be nice if I didn't need the half the KDE desktop for it.
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Trying to upgrade an operating system is almost always a good way to ensure you're going to have a bad time. Copy any files you care about off, wipe the disk, and install from scratch. This is also usually worth doing with an OEM machine, to get rid of all the crap and weirdly configured partitions they set them up with.
I agree but I'm mildly surprised when an upgrading OSX or Linux instead of a fresh install always works fine.
It transpires that the sudo binary cannot be upgraded when su is active, so the entire upgrade cascade-failed and left me with a broken and unbootable system. Had to start from bare-metal.
The real story here is the forced updates. How do people who are planning demos and presentations handle this? It's my worst nightmare.
Group policy editor. You can configure it to not update while anyone is logged in, only manual, at a set time, etc. It's just not in any of the "usual" settings menues. Likely rationalized by average users not disabling security updates by accident or something.
The real story here is the forced updates. How do people who are planning demos and presentations handle this? It's my worst nightmare.