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Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by pitaj »

mstipetic wrote: post #27
ahelwer wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've especially not enjoyed Windows occasionally hijacking the post-login screen to try to convince me to enable Cortana or whatever. The most frustrating thing is the only options when presented with the window were "Continue" or "Remind in 3 Days", rather than "Fuck Off". This abuse of user agency & consent is disgusting and ubiquitous in big tech. Video games are the only thing keeping me on windows, plus last tim…

I now have PopOS and steam is running most games no problem. I’m very pleasantly surprised how well it works

Lack of multiplayer in most cases is a non-starter.

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Post by Ccecil »

Funny story. Most recent Windows10 update broke Fusion360's ability to do some things. In my case (and that of my customer) it crashed every time we went to export the CAM processor for the PCB export in the electronics section. Happened after Saturday's big update too. But if I use Win7 it exports just fine...even though there is big flags everywhere saying don't use Win7 with Fusion.

The only reason I don't go to linux entirely is software like Fusion360 which are windows/mac primarily. Kicad is already better than Eagle for electronics design (especially 5.99) and I have some hope that Freecad will do some updates which will make it a serious competitor in the CAD field.

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Post by thaumasiotes »

philliphaydon wrote: post #28
artificialLimbs wrote: post #18

>> 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…

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.

I've had many more crashes on Windows 10 than Windows 7. I would guess it's more about what you're doing with the computer.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by xeromal »

anotherhue wrote: post #12

Well if the current nostalgia trend is anything to go by, maybe they'll Remaster Windows 2000

If they remastered Windows XP, I'd dig it. Some of my favorite old tech memories were finding bootleg versions of XP with the shitty MIDI key gen and installing it with an all black theme and windows update removed. lol

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Post by TonyTrapp »

cecilpl2 wrote: post #124
TonyTrapp wrote: post #25

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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).

Side note about the Alt-1/2/3/4 shortcuts in calculator - does anyone else find that they only work sporadically? I just tried it a bunch of times now and got maybe 50-60% success rate on it actually triggering the mode switch.

Same, I usually press them 2-3 times to make sure they work.

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Post by dlivingston »

partiallypro wrote: post #110
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #108

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Well on Apple platforms it’s easy to turn off with a single checkbox, which they explicitly ask you about at setup.

iOS infamously collects your location data even when you opt out of Apple's iOS analytics; it's more of illusion of control than anything.

Source?

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Post by fnordsensei »

hughrr wrote: post #84
ThomasWinwood wrote: post #76

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They could do what Apple did and provide a Windows compatibility layer which gets progressively more buried as old software gets replaced until it's just kept around for the weird stuff that never gets properly updated because it's maintained by a rotating set of undergrads.

They tried that with the App Store stuff. That was supposed to be the new world. But it wasn’t compelling, the store sucked and still does today and it was and still is like wading in excrement working on that side of things.

Then it seems like a problem with execution rather than a fundamental problem with the concept.

Especially with Apple as a largely successful counterexample.

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

I like Windows as an end-user OS. Works with all my equipment. The only horribly annoying feature is the lack of borders around windows which sometimes make it very, very difficult to distinguish two overlapping windows.

I am a heavy user of Linux in the back (all my servers and containers run some kind of Linux since '93) and I desperately tried to use it on the desktop but is it a big pile of crap.

SO I will live in that duality forever (I do not like macOS)

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by MrsPeaches »

artificialLimbs wrote: post #18

>> 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…

In know you shouldn't have to but I've found O&O ShutUp10 to be a great piece of software to stop a few of the more annoying parts of Windows 10.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Re: Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

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Post by catblast01 »

neilsimp1 wrote: post #24

Well, we all know the every-other-version-of-Windows-rule: Windows 2000 - Good Windows ME - Bad Windows XP - Good Windows Vista - Bad Windows 7 - Good Windows 8 - Bad Windows 10 - Good Windows 11 - ????

Windows ME really doesn’t belong in this list. Comparing the NT lineage to the non NT lineage is silly IMHO. ME was a successor of 98, not 2000.
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