"a more modern look and a redesigned Start menu" Oh please no. Hopefully the new OS will lead to less updates for Windows 10 being force pushed to my computer.
Sounds like "a new OS" just means a few Windows user interface tweaks.
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Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
#52Well if the current nostalgia trend is anything to go by, maybe they'll Remaster Windows 2000
Take my money!
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pass. Windows 10 is just so much better than 7. I still don’t get why people don’t move on. I’m happier having window 10 which has never crashed on me vs 7 which did it weekly.
The only thing that was outright good about 10 were the improvements in how the taskbar and window management works. Port that to 7 and call it a day, I say.
That might be true for you but as a developer that uses it daily there have been hundreds if not thousands of improvements to 10 that I would not want to give up.
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#54What happened to the rumours that Microsoft was making a Windows Wrapper on top of the Linux kernel? https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-sources-eric-raymond-wind...
Aka the Windows Subsystem for Linux, except the right way around
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#56I'm staying away from Windows as much as I can. The Windows 10 home edition is so bloated with nonsense applications (of which some can't be removed directly). Also, it is odd that there are still some icons and popups that have this old Vista (and sometimes even 98) style. So incredibly messy. The entire thing feels like an American commercial during the super bowl. Bleh.
I truly believe that my hardware running a Linux OS gets to live a longer, healthier and happier life than if it was running a Windows OS.
Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
#57Good lord, and we thought that the pandemic was the worst to hit us this decade.
Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
#58>> Windows 10 was released in July 2015 and dubbed "Windows as a service" Can we please have 7 back, with its complete lack of built in ads, dark patterns ramming the Microsoft browser down your throat, telemetry everywhere (the calculator, really?), changes for the sake of showing that some manager did something rather than functionality (Rename this PC -> Rename this PC (Advanced))? Windows 10 still regularly shows…
You know, I wouldn't even mind about telemetry in the calculator if that would have told them that I activate Programmer Mode a whole lot through the Alt+3 shortcut, and that my muscle memory of 20 years was completely ruined by them moving the Programmer Mode to Alt+4 for GUI consistency (after they added a new Graphing Mode that they wanted to stick right next to the Scientific Mode).
Oh, there is a graph mode?
Nevermind, I just crashed it with "sin(x)sin(y)<0"
Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
#59I have a strange feeling that the next version will be based on Linux kernel
And then have a trillion vendors messing with forked forks of the kernel that nobody knows how to merge. No thanks.
Force the bastards to open and include their drivers in the mainline kernel or perish as Microsoft bars them from supporting Windows. They would trip over themselves to do just that.
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#60Windows architecture is a mess, I wish more software companies would support Linux as cross platform compatibility gets easier each day but that doesn’t seem to be case. Unfortunately it is really hard for game development companies to develop on Linux as most of the software used by artists require Windows to function. Hopefully one day my company will be able ditch Windows completely but it might take another decad…
Krita and blender are really good open source software for graphic artists so the situation is not all bad.