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Can I have Paint.NET on Linux yet?
But honestly, spend a weekend learning Gimp. It's a pain, yes I know, but I'm really glad that I did. The official tutorials are wonderful. You'll be able to do so much more, and do it so much better, and even a bit quicker than you could in Paint.NET that you'll wind up preferring Gimp even in Windows.
Just be sure to use single-window mode.
Windows 10 is a clusterfuck of an OS. Installed it on my dad’s PC, a simple machine with browsing software and a few arcade games. Didn’t go with the full install, instead did an upgrade from Win7. Everything was honky dory until it downloaded a ginormous 1GB update. The update failed and now every time he shuts down the update tries to install again. It takes north of five minutes to shut down. Install, fail, rollba…
Windows is hanging onto this thin line, but it's a damn strong line for many.
The real story here is the forced updates. How do people who are planning demos and presentations handle this? It's my worst nightmare.
Twice I've been bit by the unexpected updates during shutdown during a power failure . At home my UPS is only good for 5 minutes, so I want to shut down as soon as the power goes down. I do that, and Windows starts on "Installing 17 updates", with absolutely no way for me to intervene. And powering down in the middle of OS updates has to be about the worst possible time for it.
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I don't even understand why this bloody "desktop" paradigm has to be maintained.
I think it can be hard for us (people who get a lot of screen time, spend a lot of time coding in 2D) to imagine that the "desktop" paradigm is already dead. Mobile/voice/AR is killing it. Granted the desktop UI metaphor will probably never die, just like the command line hasn't. But the front-and-center desktop is fading away...
The real story here is the forced updates. How do people who are planning demos and presentations handle this? It's my worst nightmare.
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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.
I've only used macs for a year and only did 10.5 -> 10.6 which went smooth IIRC. Mac approach of owning the hardware and the OS certainly has it's advantage - being able to clone image to an external HDD from my MB pro and then boot a iMac to the exact same image is a magical experience. Setting up a master image on my laptop and then redeploying to an office of 40 something various mac devices using IP broadcast and doing it in an hour - hearing that apple chime 40 times was really cool :D
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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.
It's really not too bad with root. Although the permissions and selinux stuff will trip you up a lot.
The real story here is the forced updates. How do people who are planning demos and presentations handle this? It's my worst nightmare.
In the folder %Windows%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator remove write permissions for all users from the reboot file.
https://techjourney.net/permanently-disable-prevent-automati...
Windows 10 is a clusterfuck of an OS. Installed it on my dad’s PC, a simple machine with browsing software and a few arcade games. Didn’t go with the full install, instead did an upgrade from Win7. Everything was honky dory until it downloaded a ginormous 1GB update. The update failed and now every time he shuts down the update tries to install again. It takes north of five minutes to shut down. Install, fail, rollba…
The OS is great, only macOS offers a similar OO ABI for the OS stack. Also I do have quite a few war stories from failed GNU/Linux updates, that eventually lead me to always keep /home on a separate partition and wipe everything else.
1) Yes, all OSes should respect something like the root/home separation and let you just nuke the system. But this is a lot easier in a world where all your apps are just an apt-get away.
2) In comparison to MS, every Linux seems to be a "rolling release". When we use linux we like it that we always have a not-too ancient version of GCC. But when Windows 10 starts upgrading continuously, sinister stuff gets mixed in.
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…