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Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by degski »

throwaway2048 wrote: post #183
spicymaki wrote: post #145

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There is no out of order seek penalty for SSD drives like traditional hard drives. In fact you cannot guarantee what the SSD does to your logical blocks underneath the hood (they are mapped in indirect tables). You do not want to do defrag an SSD due to adding necessary erase cycles, that is why Windows has it disabled.

That's only partly true, fragmentation can and does massively effect SSD performance both on read and write, can effect write latency, but not read latency. (think of it in terms of an SSD being a huge pile of 4MB blocks where each block needs to be completely erased to clear out old content to get a clearer picture)

From what I understand, the blocks are just "marked" as being deleted, the TRIM command erases/wipes the content. Windows does this [TRIM], in default setup, once a month.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by degski »

craftinator wrote: post #176
itvision wrote: post #119

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I'm not a fanboy of any OS in existence but 1. Most tech-illiterate people are afraid of using regedit and/or GPO to disable Cortana so the point is valid. 2. Disk fragmentation has become an even bigger issue since Windows 10 doesn't defragment SSD disks. 3. It's not an argument. 4. The article talks about laptops specifically and the issue is still there and it's huge even for Windows 10 which often installs Micros…

I'm completely tech literate and I STILL am afraid to use regedit. There are so many gotchyas, so little documentation, and many many side effects.

It would help if regedit had some confirmation dialog as opposed to the current 'direct' editing. An undo function [possibly persistent] wouldn't go amiss either.

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Post by ChrisSD »

freeAgent wrote: post #271
ChrisSD wrote: post #227

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For enhanced security you can run as a "standard user" then switch users whenever you need to run something with admin privileges. And by switch users I mean literally go through the login screen to change desktop to an admin user. Obviously this isn't ideal. I've been using this set up for awhile and mostly I can live with it but installing/updating programs is a pain. Especially if they bizarrely don't expect to be…

You don't have to switch to an admin user account. You can provide admin credentials when needed or right click an installer and run as admin manually (and provide the credentials then).

No. That causes a process with admin rights to run in the context of your desktop session. This is exploitable by non-admin processes running in the same session. The inter-process security in Windows is unfortunately weak when they share a desktop session.

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Post by jki275 »

Silhouette wrote: post #320
jki275 wrote: post #319

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As I said, if you like writing code in VI. The vast majority of what I do is C or C++, and I do as much of it as I can in Xcode or VS even if I have to cross-compile it later to run on the machines it's written for. A good IDE is worth its weight in gold, and VS is the best.

The vast majority of what I do is C or C++ Given your comments here, that makes sense, but there is a whole world of other programming languages used in other ways out there, and what you use to edit your code or even debug it is far from the only tool that matters. In many of those languages, the best tools and newest developments typically happen on UNIX first. I'm not sure why this is such a difficult thing to ack…

It makes little sense to talk about other languages in discussing VS, given that C, C#, and C++ are the primary supported languages there.

Obviously if you're doing other things you're doing other things.

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Post by freeAgent »

ChrisSD wrote: post #323
freeAgent wrote: post #271

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You don't have to switch to an admin user account. You can provide admin credentials when needed or right click an installer and run as admin manually (and provide the credentials then).

No. That causes a process with admin rights to run in the context of your desktop session. This is exploitable by non-admin processes running in the same session. The inter-process security in Windows is unfortunately weak when they share a desktop session.

You're assuming at that point that you're already compromised or running malware, though. If you aren't already infected with malware, this is not a problem. If the installer itself is malware, then switching to an admin account to install it obviously offers no protection.

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Post by Fjolsvith »

anchpop wrote: post #260
itvision wrote: post #232

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4. Sadly nowadays it's one of the worst UIs. It was great starting with Windows 95 and ending with 7. It all went downhill starting with Windows 8. Windows 10 isn't much better.

I've heard this often but never seen much justification for it besides things like buttons having less visual distinction from other content and the split control panel/settings app (which is pretty embarrassing). Was there anything else you had in mind?

Lack of color customization for the UI in order to facilitate vision disability/difficulty.
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