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Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by temporallobe » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 3:30 PM UTC

danbolt wrote: post #378

malshe wrote: post #372

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If you don't mind my asking, what's Mint?

I think the author is speaking about Linux Mint[1], which is a flavour of Ubuntu with some quality-of-life additions. [1] https://linuxmint.com/

Yes indeed, Linux Mint! I have even put it on my daughter's laptop and she really likes it (she had endless problems with Windows 10 constantly updating and being extremely slow, sometimes she'd have to wait for hours for an update to complete, disrupting her homework). It's a pretty darn good user-centric Linux distro based on Ubuntu.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by kakarot » Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 11:03 AM UTC

einr wrote: post #181

PascLeRasc wrote: post #79

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Does he need 10? Windows 7 still works fine, so does Elementary OS if that works.

If you use Windows 7 on modern processors (Ryzen/Skylake), Windows Update stops working so you won't get security updates.

I have an Intel 6700K and WU works fine for me.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by ZeikJT » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 2:10 AM UTC

tracker1 wrote: post #337

eutropia wrote: post #95

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I had to spend several days manually ripping out huge chunks of Win10 to get something resembling the usability of XP. That included removing all of the updating utilities, hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers, removal of most of the preinstalled apps, as well as disabling and deleting all of the scheduled tasks which try to re-install and re-enable those settings. All this trouble so I can play modern PC games..…

Other than using classic shell, I pretty much like the W10 toolbar. The harder learning curve is I still have many years of searching for X, when the UX is now in Y for a given setting. It's arguably in a better place now, just hard to re-learn. As to linux gaming, a lot of effort has been made with Steam, another walled garden, but a nicer one. I just wish some of the UI/UX in linux would solidify a bit. I've been r…

Valve did put Proton (their wine layer) on GitHub. Some stuff is making it outside the walls :)